The Gentle Arms of Eden

On a sleepy endless ocean when the world lay in a dream

There was rhythm in the splash and roll, but not a voice to sing

So, the moon shone on the breakers and the morning warmed the waves

‘til a single cell did jump and hum for joy as though to say

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This is my home, this is my only home     

This is the only sacred ground that I have ever known    

 And should I stray in the dark night alone     

Rock me Goddess in the gentle arms of Eden

Then the day shone bright and rounder, the one turned into two

The two into ten thousand things, and old things into new

And on some virgin beach head, one lonesome critter crawled

He looked about and shouted out in his most astonished drawl

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Then all the sky was buzzin’ and the ground was carpet green

The wary children of the wood went dancing in-between

And the people sang rejoicing when the fields were glad with grain

This song of celebration from their cities on the plain

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Now there's smoke across the harbor, and there's factories on the shore

This world is ill with greed and will and enterprise of war

But I will lay my burden in the cradle of your grace

And the shining beaches of your love and the sea of your embrace

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Rock me Goddess in the gentle arms of Eden.

    This is my home!