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A ferry, green and white, chased by gulls\u2019 cries
\nthreads waters skinned with dancing diamonds
\nand blows its great horn to announce Work dies
\nand Play\u00a0bursts its chrysalis in the sun.<\/p>\n

We camp in a place where nothing happens.
\nA dramatist\u2019s desert, where story starves
\nfor lack of conflict but poems a pen
\npours out in praise of the greening harvest.<\/p>\n

Our sole duty is Eucharist, fitting
\nfor a place pregnant with the truth that Thanks
\nis the first act of the human person
\nand that the world is gift, not achievement.<\/p>\n

O my soul, so dulled with worldly\u00a0care
\nRemember the grace and love always there.<\/p>\n

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A ferry, green and white, chased by gulls\u2019 cries threads waters skinned with dancing diamonds and blows its great horn to announce Work dies and Play\u00a0bursts its chrysalis in the sun. We camp in a place where nothing happens. 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