I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a …

Thomas Merton
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I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected ✨ Thomas Merton, Lynn Szabo (2005). In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton, p.97, New Directions Publishing
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