“"We lived in places that we never knew.We could not name the birds perched on our sill,Or see the trees we cut down for our view.What we possessed we always chose to kill.{{pbr}}"We claimed the earth but did not hear her claim,And when we died, they laid us on her breast,But she refuses us — until we earnForgiveness from the lives we dispossessed."”

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