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A flash of flame
To launch the universe
A burst of light
To sear the shroud
They form the seam
Of visible universe
A bridge for man
For believers, a cloud
To follow in the desert sky
Faces in cloth
Revealed by time
Stars in firmament
Too far to mine
From soil into man
And life into clay
To pathways of worlds
And thought more real
Than atoms or quarks
And galaxies, whirled
For this I give thanks
With mouth made of dust.
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