We offer thanks and praise, For the circle of our days. Praise for radiant brother sun, Who makes the hours around us run. For sister moon and for the stars, Brilliant, precious, always ours.   Serene or cloudy, foul or fair. For sister water, clear and chaste, Useful, humble, good to taste. For fire, our brother, strong and bright, Whose joy illuminates the night. 
Praise for our sister, Mother earth,Who cares for each of us from birth. For all her children, fierce or mild, For sister, brother, parent, child. For creatures wild and creatures tame, For hunter, hunted, both the same. For brother sleep, and sister death,  Who tend
the borders of our breath.For desert, orchard, rock, and tree, For forest, meadow, mountain, sea, For fruit and flower, plant and bush, For morning robin, evening thrush. For all earth's gifts, of every kind, We offer praise with quiet mind. Be with us, Earth, and guide our ways Around the circle of our days ~ Saint Francis of Assisi ~
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