Ortus
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ow have I laboured?How have I not labouredTo bring her soul to birth,To give these elements a name and a centre! She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid.She has no name, and no place.How have I laboured to bring her soul into separation;To give her a name and her being! Surely you are bound and entwined,You are mingled with the elements unborn;I have loved a stream and a shadow. I beseech you enter your life.I beseech you learn to say “I”When I question you:For you are no part, but a whole;No portion, but a being.
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