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D. Rice

The Northern Lights dance for no man...or woman.

Preamble

[The Cremation of Sam McGee] (partial)
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
   By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
   That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
   But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
   I cremated Sam McGee.

-Robert Service

The deafening heartbeat

Chris Stevens:
In dreams begin responsibilities, so wrote the poet.
So it is perhaps. Could it be we take our dreams too lightly,
those images from places unknown?

Could they in fact be angels in flight, our souls aloft?

You know, recent experiences have made yours truly take
another pass through the metaphysical thickets.
As unlikely as it may sound in this rational age,
I emerged on the side of those that cannot help but
put their faith in that which cannot be easily explained.

Be open to your dreams people. Embrace that distant shore.
Cause our mortal journey is over all too soon.

[Chris muses and reads from "The Tempest", Act IV]
"Those cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
 the solemn temples. The great globe itself.
Yea all which you inherit shall dissolve and like this
 insubstantial pageant faded. Leave not a rack behind.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our
 little life is rounded with asleep."
The president in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land.
But how can you buy or sell the sky, the land?
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man did not weave the web of life.
He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web he does to himself...
-Chief Seattle, dated 1852

Outro

[The Dreamer] (partial)
The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold,
   His sweat, his blood, the wage of weary days;
But now how sweet, how doubly sweet to hold
   All gay and gleamy to the campfire blaze.

-Robert Service
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