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... strength and skill to find the food it needs , to avoid danger , and , later , to propagate and protect its young . I have stood above a sea gull's nest on a rocky ledge and watched a chick within its shell painfully pecking out a hole ...
... strength and skill to find the food it needs , to avoid danger , and , later , to propagate and protect its young . I have stood above a sea gull's nest on a rocky ledge and watched a chick within its shell painfully pecking out a hole ...
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... strength of your common devotion , and the enduring character of your dedication . -From a selection by DAVID H. MACPHERSON We have come here together that this man and this woman might bear witness before you and to the world of the ...
... strength of your common devotion , and the enduring character of your dedication . -From a selection by DAVID H. MACPHERSON We have come here together that this man and this woman might bear witness before you and to the world of the ...
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... strength and loveliness of which remain to bless us . Those whom we love do indeed leave us , and when we lose them no spoken words can lessen our grief . But what they were can never leave us . The strength of their presence , the ...
... strength and loveliness of which remain to bless us . Those whom we love do indeed leave us , and when we lose them no spoken words can lessen our grief . But what they were can never leave us . The strength of their presence , the ...
Contents
An eye comes out of the wave | 5 |
Give back life for life | 16 |
We take the future from ourselves | 27 |
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accept beauty become beginning believe birth body born breath bring Carl Sandburg child comes continue courage dark dead death dream earth eternal experience eyes face faith fall fear feel flower forever friends GEORGE gift give given gone green grief grow hands happy heart hold hope hour human individual John keep leave light lives look lost marriage meaning memory mind morning mother mystery nature never night once ourselves pain parents pass peace person Poems present Press remain rest ROBERT rose selection sense share sleep song sorrow soul spirit stand stars strength sweet thee things thou thought touch true truth turn understanding universe whole wind young youth