This is the dawn I waited for The new day clean and whole When we emerge from night and silence To freely inhabit the substance of time. (Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen)

This is the dawn I waited for The new day clean and whole When we emerge from night and silence To freely inhabit the substance of time.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

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