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The Air We Breathe

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lyrics

Wild air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,
That each eyelash or hair
Girdles; goes home betwixt
The fleeciest, frailest-flixed
Snowflake; that's fairly mixed
With, riddles, and is rife
In every least thing's life

This needful, never spent,
And nursing element;
My more than meat and drink,
My meal at every wink;

This air, by which life's law,
My lung must draw and draw
Now but to breathe its praise,
Minds me in many ways
Of her who not only
Gave infinity
Dwindled to infancy

Welcome to womb and breast,
Birth, milk and all the rest
But mothers each new grace
That does now reach our race -
Mary Immaculate,
Merely a woman, yet
Whose presence, power is
Great as no goddess's
Was deemed, dreamed, who
This one work has to do -
Let all glory through,
Glory which would go
Through her and from her flow
Off, and no way but so.

I say that we are wound
With mercy round and round
As if with air: the same
Is Mary, more by name.
She, wild web, wondrous robe,
Mantles the guilty globe,
Since God has let dispense
Her prayers his providence:
Nay, more than almoner,
The sweet alms' self is her
And men are meant to share
Her life as life does air

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from Stella Kola, released February 3, 2023
Beverly Ketch - vocals
Robert Thomas - acoustic guitar
Jen Gelineau - viola
P.G. Six - electric 12 string guitar
Jim Bliss - bass

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