Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That is, of child, white bird, and small blue dragon-fly Green fern, and the gold four-petalled tormentilla The ultimate memory. Each latent cell puts out a future, Unfolds its differing complexity As a tree puts forth leaves, and spins a fate Fern-traced, bird feathered, or fish-scaled.
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To chaos meaning.
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obedient to the unseen sun,
longer than memory, a thought
deeper than the graves of time.
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
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