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But each form was perfect, each spirit complete,

Each one was a model whose shape could repeat”

“The Mother illing The green earth was filling”

“All the birds and the fish and the animals born,

Would not leave the Mother, this time, to mourn

Each kind would live near the place of its birth,

And share the expanse of the Great Mother Earth”

“Close to Her they would stay They could not run away”

“They all were Her children, they filled Her with pride

But they used up the life-force She carried inside

She had enough left for a last innovation,

A child who’d remember Who made the creation”

“A child who’d respect And learn to protect”

“First Worown and alive,

And given the Gifts she would need to survive