Praise to the Conjurors!
Praise to mask and glove

Praise to the Wanderers!
Praise to cask and love

Praise to the Conjugals!
Praise to kin and kiln

Praise to the Jugglers!
Praise to wind and bin

Praise to all the Shining Gems!
Birthed in ooze and dark

Praise to the Miners Bright!
Who celebrate the art

Praise to the Conjurors!
Their nimble fingers fly

Praise to Purple Altar Cloths!
Whose prayers take wing and fly

Praise to the Conjugals!
All innocents, everywhere

Praise to every newly born!
Sacred in our care

Praise to Frothy Blossoms!
No matter from what fruit

Praise to holy Goddess Earth!
Who keeps her sacred troth

Praise to brilliant Composters!
Those ones who fashion Gold

Praise to gen’rous Water Drops!
You secret caves enfold

Praise to Sapphire Chalices!
Unbreak the soldered chain

Praise to All that is Alive!
That weaves and croons and caws

Praise to sacred Alchemists!
Who mine Gold from Cosmic Law

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Praise to Violet Miracles!
Bled from wound and sword

Praise to soaring Wing’d Ones!
Who sing and bless and pour

Praise to homely Furry Ones!
You keep us loved and warm

Praise Farms and Fields and Fins and Fish!
Forgive our o’er-turned urns

Praise to Wild Unleash’ed Ones!
Be patient while we burn

Praise to the Conjurors!
They balance Dark and Light

Praise to the Conjugals!
They calibrate the Night

Praise to the Jugglers!
You fling in every hue

Praise to Babies Everywhere!
You shine like petalled dew

Praise to Newly Sprouted Seeds
And your extrav’gant Green

Praise to Sacred Spinning Sack!
That rocks the Milky Way

Praise to Angel Opal Sheen!
That holds the baby’s Day

Praise to Father Mountain Ridge!
Steadfastly guarding Form

Praise to the Conjurors!
One more Wonder Born

Praise to golden Med’cine Folk!
Jugglers of Mist and Search

Praise the merge of Night and Day!
Fire, Fog, Stream and Earth

Praise the rhyth’m of Void and Birth!
Birth, Death and all between

Praise the val’rous Woken Folk!
Dire sentence now released
It’s time for Sidhe
Of Radiant Being
To greet the Blinding Yolk

by Gair Hemphill Crutcher

Aug 9 2024