Outside Verse on Style #2
"I do dimly perceive
that while everything around me
is ever changing, ever dying,
there is underlying all that change
a living power that is changeless,
that holds all together,
that creates,
dissolves, and recreates..............
I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see
that in the midst of death,
life persists.
In the midst of untruth,
truth persists.
In the midst of darkness,
light persists.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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Outside Verse on
Style #4
I give you this one thought to keep--
I am with you still -- I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain,
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone --
I am with you still -- in each new dawn.
--Native American Prayer
Inside Verse on Style #4
For so the children come
And so they have been coming.
Always in the same way they come
born of the seed of man and woman.
No angels herald their beginnings.
No prophets predict their future courses.
No wisemen see a star to show where to
find the babe that will save human kind.
Yet each night a child is born is a holy night,
Fathers and mothers--
sitting beside their children’s cribs feel
glory in the sight of a new life beginning.
They ask, “Where and how will this
new life end? Or will it ever end?”
Each night a child is born is a holy night--
A time for singing,
A time for wondering.
A time for worshiping.
--Sophia Lyon Fahs
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