All life’s many cycles

Rest within God’s circle

And reveal Earth dying and yet living.

Pastures wrapped in stillness,

Woods asleep in darkness,

Each sustain the life-force of Earth’s people.

Birds that fly the heavens,

Fish that swim the oceans,

Each sustain the life-force of Earth’s people.

Field and mountain creatures,

With the whole of Nature,

All sustain the life-force of Earth’s people.

Growing through each dying,

Spinning beauty’s being,

Our Earth Mother births God’s gift of living.

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Original Text: Kurt Marti.
Translation: Hans Jurg Stefan.
Paraphrase: William L.(Bill) Wallace.
Text © William Livingstone Wallace Music © Friedemann Gottschick