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THE LAW OF MIRACLES

There is a law of miracles which controls
all that evades the other laws since not even God,
with His omnipotence, is free from the abyss
in which all that is irrational disappears.

This law of life is not formulated
with a plan or with arithmetical numbers,
but the mind is aware of it from birth
and disguises it with the name of chance.

God spins with both hands on His loom;
the left hand makes a clear design
that man’s understanding is able to grasp,

while on this canvas the right hand
embroiders the sacred whim of chance,
which is the powerful arm of progress.