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"Let it be like this.
Let the water clear away
so the plate of earth
comes toward the light.
Let the land gather
and level out.

Then it can be sown.
Then the dawn can come."

"But there will be no words of praise or prayer
to sing of what we frame and shape
until humanity is born, until true people have been made," they said.

When it was time to make the earth:
it only took a word.
To make earth they said, "Earth."