<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">School Prayer</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In the name of daybreak<br class="">
and the eyelids of morning<br class="">
and the wayfaring moon<br class="">
and the night when it departs,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I swear I will not dishonor<br class="">
my soul with hatred<br class="">
but offer myself humbly<br class="">
as a guardian of nature,<br class="">
as a healer of misery,<br class="">
as a messenger of wonder<br class="">
as an architect of peace.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In the name of the sun and its minors<br class="">
and the day that embraces it<br class="">
and the cloud veils drawn over it<br class="">
and the uttermost night<br class="">
and the male and the female<br class="">
and the plants bursting with seed<br class="">
and the crowning seasons of the firefly<br class="">
and the apple, I will honor all life</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">wherever and in whatever form<br class="">
it may dwell—on Earth my home,<br class="">
and in the mansions of the stars</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Diane Ackerman</span></p></div></body></html>