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In the Beginning. In the beginning was the Great Radiance fourteen billion years ago. Out of the fireball came simple hydrogen and helium from that great glow. Gravity swirled those gases into stars white, yellow, blue, and red. But no dancing planets till the birth of silicon,
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In the beginning was the Great Radiance fourteen billion years ago
Out of the fireball came simple hydrogen and helium from that great glow
Gravity swirled those gases into stars white, yellow, blue, and red
But no dancing planets till the birth of silicon, calcium, iron, and lead
The first generations of ancestor stars squeezed primal gases into stone
Into oxygen and into nitrogen into calcium for antler and bone
Then they expired and launched back into space atoms born of pressure and strife
So later generations of stars like our own sun could have planets and maybe even life
We are made of stardust We are born from death Greet your cousins who twinkle in the night
What do we savor in our brief flick’ring lives? What do we leave for our descendants delight?
Gravity swirled those gases into stars red, yellow, blue, and white
What do we savor in our brief flick’ring lives? What do we leave for our descendants delight?
What do we savor in our brief flick’ring lives? What do we leave for our descendants delight?
What do we leave for our descendants delight?
In the Beginning by Connie Barlow written for our Solar System’s first “Evolutionary Revival” February 2008 at First Unitarian Universalist Church San Diego, CA Photos courtesy of the Cosmos and its technologically gifted life forms
TheGreatStory.org /evolutionary-revival.html