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The Earth, Myself
Endless be thy flow
In unceasing undulation
Poundeth thine waves as doth beateth mine heart
bathing thy rocky shore
thou bringest life to all
behold thy periwinkle
his brother barnacle
and sister urchin
How wondrous be this blood of earth
Me thinks that to watch you is to see
Within me
in thou I see my blood cells
as fish disguised
thy plankton like so many proteins
in myself seeth I one monocyte
fruit of thy womb
as a child through your garden I wander
yet I found the shore
surpassed I your confines
climbed I upon the rocks
here fixed I will stay
unable to return
guarding your shore
protector I shall be
macrophage be my name
