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I really love this Navajo poem - here's part of A PRAYER - For Second Day of the Night Chant:

Talking God sits with me.
House God sits with me.
Pollen Boy sits with me.
Grasshopper Girl sits with me.
Beautifully white corn to me is restored.
Beautifully yellow corn to me is restored.
Beautifully blue corn to me is restored.
Beautifully corn of all kinds to me is restored.

In beauty may I walk.
All day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk.
With dew about my feet may I walk.

With beauty may I walk.
With beauty before me, may I walk.
With beauty behind me, may I walk.
With beauty above me, may I walk.
With beauty below me, may I walk.
With beauty all around me, may I walk.

In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.


Zion National Park
"The Three Patriarchs"


Zion National Park
"The Subway"


Zion National Park
"Towers of the Virgin"


Zion National Park
"The Narrows"


Paria Wilderness
Paria River Rincon


Capitol Reef National Park
Hall's Creek Narrows


Capitol Reef National Park
The Burr Trail


San Rafael Swell
Pictograph Panel - Head of Sinbad


Capitol Reef National Park
View From Cook's Mesa


Dead Horse Point
Island in the Sky


Ribbon Falls
Grand Canyon


Logs in "The Narrows"
Zion National Park


Turret Arch from the North Window, Arches Nat'l Park


Crack Canyon
San Rafael Swell


40 Mile Gulch
The Escalante


Zion National Park
"The Narrows"


Paria Wilderness
Buckskin Gulch


Arches National Park
"The Marching Men"


 


Western Oregon University

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