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Recorded Reading (2:03): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ba34j6geakv1v6gcb08dm/Ecumenical-Etymology.mp3?rlkey=dysb7dh8ujhbh455hhxig2o76&st=98knt4w5&dl=0

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Ecumenical Etymology

Every dawning o’er the mountain
Diff’rent from all others be ~
Inexaustable the fountain
Of Divine variety!

Every leaf on every tree
Every little blade of grass
Different as they can be
From any other ever was

How many million snowflakes have
Gently drifted past your face
Tenderly your spirit lave
And melted then to leave no trace?

More than millions over time
Such in billions must we count
Masterpieces ~ these sublime
Little miracles’ amount

And what of you, and what of me?
Unique in every single way
From what we think to what we see
When gazing on the selfsame day

Whatever the intelligence
Higher than ours, and higher still,
Which the hydraulics can commence
A tree in ~ call it what you will ~

Which touches babes to breathing life,
Which regulates the warming sun,
By which a man knows future wife
The moment friendship’s first begun

Go ahead and call it science
Call it abstract theory
Myself, I place but small reliance
Upon etymology

What’s described is all the same
Don’t think me naive or odd
The word we use is but a name:
I just choose to call it God

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