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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.

Alan Paton

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Lovely Raed Run
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that’s the inheritor of our fear.
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Beloved Child Country Cry Fear Inheritor Unborn
It is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
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Ever Forget Forgive Forward Happen Nothing Wrong
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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Danger Hime Hurry Past People Place Safe
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
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Day Fera Great Heart Love One Turn
Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire.
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Deep Earth FIner Fire Let Love Make Sun Through
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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All Road Country Lead Pople
But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
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Anything Destroy House Rebuild Something Strom
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
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Fear Give Heart Mountain Much Nor Rob Valley
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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All God Hand His Man Sinful Well
There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.
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Hill Into Lovely Road Run Xopo
Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Born Buy Earth Fruit Land Money
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
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Against Deserted Forest Harbour Lap Quay Silent Tap
There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days.
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All Day Gather Grass Great Man Over Sleep Storm
Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
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Care Destroy Guard Jeep Men
For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Century Come Dawn Fall never Thousand

The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.

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