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Grateful for the coming day, its restoration powers For your cherished breathing in the early hours Grateful for the base camp and the precipice, The hope of Absolution for every artifice. Grateful for the riddles - the closed eyes of the mole; The meekness of the Shire Horse, the frailty of the foal Grateful for the fragrance of the varnished pew, Those long gone Chapel Sundays that yearned for 'all things newโ€™ Grateful Grateful for the constant awe of the sparrowโ€™s breath That the weeping elephant has rituals for death Grateful for the ghostly hem of Autumnโ€™s wading mists For the prophetโ€™s folly that Truth, each day, persists Grateful for the perfume of the cattle stall, And the spiderโ€™s silver shawl on a graveyard wall Grateful for the crimson peaks magnanimous with gorse And the heights of conscience on the mountains of remorse Iโ€™m Grateful Grateful for The Rockies and the Bobcatโ€™s cryptic call, The copper canvas of New England in the Fall Grateful for beloved Wales, the Gower in the Spring, The stones of Bannau Brycheiniog, from which the poems sing And Iโ€™m Grateful for the Thomas boy, his epic habitat, The song of Polly Garter and the dreams of Captain Cat And Iโ€™m Grateful for the abstract, the complex and the odd, The quarter-tone transcendence of the countless octaves God Iโ€™m Grateful Grateful for the icon in the ancient crypt, Gold-leaf exultation of the sacred script Grateful for precise machines that chart the bodyโ€™s land The slippage in the cells, and the fault line in a gland Iโ€™m Grateful thereโ€™s a countdown on this limited dimension Grateful for the skylarkโ€™s hint of infinite ascension And Iโ€™m Grateful for becalming, on this fathomless morass, And the tempest life-belt, assuring us that all things shall pass And Grateful Iโ€™m not destined or determined by my mood When my capricious state turns sick of all this gratitude And Iโ€™m Grateful that Iโ€™m feeling in such a fractured disarray And that Iโ€™m not responsible for the final say Grateful, Grateful