The poem by e.e. cummings, set to music by Martha Michael & Jim Harris

O Sweet Spontaneous


OH SWEET SPONTANEOUS EARTH

HOW OFTEN HAVE THE DOTING FINGERS

OF PRURIENT PHILOSOPHERS

PINCHED AND POKED THEE

HAS THE NAUGHTY THUMB OF SCIENCE

PRODDED THY BEAUTY

HOW OFTEN HAVE RELIGIONS

TAKEN THEE UPON THEIR SCRAGGY KNEES

SQUEEZING AND BUFFETING THEE

THAT THOU MIGHTEST CONCEIVE GODS

BUT TRUE TO THE INCOMPARABLE COUCH OF DEATH

THY RHYTHMIC LOVER

THOU ANSWEREST THEM ONLY WITH SPRING

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