This poem is from 1869. It is taken from "The Story of Iza", by Grace Ramsay .And people stayed homeAnd read books and listenAnd rested and did ...

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This poem is from 1869. It is taken from "The Story of Iza", by Grace Ramsay .

And people stayed home
And read books and listen
And rested and did exercises
And made art and played
And learned new ways of being
And stopped

And listened more deeply
Someone meditated
Someone prayed
Someone was dancing
Someone met his shadow
And people started to think differently

And then people were healed.
And there was an absence of people living
in a dangerous ignorance
Meaningless and heartless
Even the earth began to heal

And when the danger ended
And the people met
They wept for the dead
And they made new decisions ...
And they dreamed of new visions
And they created new ways of life.
And they completely healed the earth
Just when they were healed.