<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-3097419014666939681gmail-docs-internal-guid-f07f423a-7fff-3188-20ed-8a458f1fe147"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dawning</span></p>by Joan Myles</span><div><span><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">one blade of grass is all she sees</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">slim and green between her fingers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">secure in its place </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">green and growing </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">upward</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sparkling with dew in dawn’s first rays</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">one finger of grass</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and the song of morning opens</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> the day full and rich and varied</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">spreads before her like Eden</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">as long as she holds it </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sacred</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.4;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Verdana;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">one blade of grass </span></p></span><br></div></div>
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