sort of biblical, but as a pagan homage this is wonderful.
and a great poem.
KS
On 12/11/2007, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Northern Landscape
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> by Jon Corelis
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> After a painting by William Buxton
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> This is what created us. This light,
> dappling the columned forests with petaled gold,
> these nourishing and nourished streams, these bright
> sun-laughing lakes, ruffling under an old
> and infant wind, this intercourse of pine,
> air, beam, mulch, bough, loam, moisture, say we fit
> into the mothering niche of this design.
> This does not belong to us: we belong to it.
> If there can be a god, that god must be
> what we are made to live for and within;
> so in this pure cathedral we may see
> our earth-determined being, and begin
> to learn that we are water, light, and air:
> our breath is homage, and our heartbeat prayer.
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