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When I woke in the morning, I saw a wealth of sun,
As a bird-song faded,its singing just done
Sunlight I asked: Can you spare a spark of your heat?
Bird I asked: Can you lend a sweet note of your song?
Grass I inquired of:Can I beg a blade of new green?
Conch-weed I conjured: Can I share one beam of your opening brightness?
Wind I pleaded with: Can I take from your flowing a shadow of breath?
Wave I questioned: Can I have a hair's width of your heady leap?
Sky I asked:Can I barrow your boundless for the space of one wink?
All I ask for a share and all gave,
And I live, for living,in fact,adds only to these:
Warm sweetness, fragrant green,opening brightness,heady resilient flowing
In boundless being,aware
Of all such borrowed goods