From the Five Rivers

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SOWING SONG


Sun-flash on the grain

As it leaps from the sower's hand,

Quick with desire to gain

New life from the land.


Seams, furrows, and scars

On the face of our Mother Earth,

For the gods set sorrow and tears

At the gates of birth.


Swift flight of the seed,

Like a bird through the sun-bright air,

To rot in the ground, or breed

In the Dread One's care.


Broken heart of soil,

Taking all to its patient breast,

With never a cease from toil

Or a dream of rest.


Wheat-grains grow to wheat,

And the seed of a tare to tare.

Who knows if Man's soul will meet

Man's body to wear?


Great Ram! grant me life

From the grain of a golden deed;

Sink not my soul in the strife

To wake as a weed.