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Thank You for This New Day

i thank you God for this most amazing day:
for the leaping greenly spirit of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;
this is the birth day of life and of love and wings:
and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any -
lifted from the no of all nothing -
human merely being
doubt unimaginable you?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings


See the modeh ani at the beginning of your prayer book for the Hebrew version of this poem.

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