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STRAY BIRDS

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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

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My sad thoughts tease me asking me their own names.

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The service of the fruit is precious, the service of the flower is sweet, but let my service be the service of the leaves in its shade of humble devotion.

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My heart has spread its sails to the idle winds for the shadowy island of Anywhere.

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