<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac (Part 3)</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">I know, you never intended to be in this world.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">But you're in it all the same.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">so why not get started immediately.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">I mean, belonging to it.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">There is so much to admire, to weep over.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">And to write music or poems about.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">Bless the feet that take you to and fro.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Bless the eyes and the listening ears.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Bless the tongue, the marvel of taste.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Bless touching.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">You could live a hundred years, it's happened.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Or not.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">I am speaking from the fortunate platform<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">of many years,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">none of which, I think, I ever wasted.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Do you need a prod?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Do you need a little darkness to get you going?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Let me be urgent as a knife, then,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and remind you of Keats,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">so single of purpose and thinking, for a while,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">he had a lifetime.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.875em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.28; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Mary Oliver</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>