The gesture of a gift is inadequate.
If you have nothing, laurel leaf or bay,
No flower, no seed, no apple gathered late,
Do not in desperation lay
the beauty of your tears upon the clay.
No gift is proper to the Deity;
no fruit is worthy for such power to bless.
If you have nothing, gather back your sigh,
and with your hands held high, your heart held high,
lift up your emptiness.
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