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Child of Nature                            Wolfsong

 Child of nature in a land of strife               Underneath the waxing moon,
 Child of nature filled with life                  While the world sleeps,
                                                   In a starlit night cocoon,
 Raise your voice to a brand new day               The secret that she keeps
 Grandfather Sun light your way
 Taste the wind, feel the breeze                   Deep within her wild heart,
 With Grandmother Moon take your ease              Quiet for too long,
                                                   Breaks away and flies apart,
 The Arch of Sky, gentle and blue                  Bursting into song.
 Joins up with Earth to watch over you
                                                   Sad and haunting, weaves a dream,
 Child of nature in a land of strife               Of cycles, life and death,
 Child of nature filled with life                  Golden eyes that flash and gleam,
                                                   Hot and panting breath,
 The power of Thunder in your voice
 With rippling Water may you rejoice               Old as time and new as birth,
 The steadiness of Rocks give you your ground      A primal sliding scale
 Whispering Four Winds fill you with sound.        Winds its way around the earth
                                                   Through every hill and vale.
 Medicine Bear and mighty Hawk
 Beside Eagle and Otter may you safely walk.       Spirits longing to be free
                                                   Hear, and catch the spark
 Child of nature in a land of strife               Of the unbound melody
 Child of nature filled with life                  Ringing through the dark.

----------------------------------------------     Share her secret, hold it fast,
(CAPhillips, 5/1/95, with deference and            Keep it close at hand,
appreciation to the Osage Amerind                  Alone no more, released at last,
belief system)                                     They know and understand,

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Reproduction is prohibited without express         A bond still sure and strong,
permission of the author**                         On the wind, we find it there,
                                                   Within the wild wolf's song.

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Heavenly Rewards

 Console yourself with Heaven if you must,
 The rich rewards a life of deeds will bring -
 But keenest wish for good is fecal dust
 That wheels and turns like vultures on the wing
 Which eye the desert of man's noble themes
 For stragglers. Greedily they track their prey
 The crawling wretches who will bring their dreams
 To bleach in false oases, where they lay
 A warning to the jaded. Learn your peace
 From wolves, whose nature closely touches ours:
 'Tis better to be fed than to be fleece
 Adrape on bushes, lit by hellish stars
 Where passive gods reside. They watch this stage
 Too wracked by mirth to give good works their wage.

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