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Hare Worship in the Ancient World
The Hare by Walter De La Mare
Eyes that glass fear, though fear on furtive foot – Track thee in slumber bound.
Ears that whist danger, though the wind sigh not – Nor echo…..
“I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered…..
That Art Thou
Man, tread softly on the earth
What looks like dust
Is also stuff of which galaxies are made
The green of earth’s great trees and simple grasses
Is the same music played in red
Throughout our trunks and limbs.
Evelyn Nolt: The Glory Which is Earth.
Paradise was a place of peace, we say, and all the animals were gentle servants to us. Well, the world would yet be a place of peace if we were all peacemakers, and gentle service should we have of its creatures if we gave them gentle mastery. But so long as we make sport of slaying a bird and beast, so long as we chose to contend rather with our fellows than with our faults, and make battlefields…..
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