A good nation I will make live.
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Now I knew the sixth Grandfather was about to speak, he who was the Spirit of the Earth, and I saw that he was very old, but more as men are old.
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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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