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i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
i feel my fate in what i cannot fear.
i learn by going where i have to go.

we think by feeling. what is there to know?
i hear my being dance from ear to ear.
i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

of those so close beside me, which are you?
god bless the ground! i shall walk softly there,
and learn by going where i have to go.

light takes the tree; but who can tell us how?
the lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

great Nature has another thing to do
to you and me; so take the lively air,
and, lovely, learn by going where to go.

this shaking keeps me steady, i should know.
what falls away is always. and is near.
i wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
i learn by going where i have to go.

-Theodore Roethke

-life, dancing before us, and so long ive been distracted with meanings-