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Kathleen O'Meara, 'n Ierse digter, het hierdie vers geskryf in 1869,  toe 'n dodelike plaag Ierland in die 1860's getref het.

SOMETHING LOVELY

And people stayed home and read books and listened ...

and rested and excercised, and made art and played

and learned new ways of being

and were still

and listened more deeply

Someone meditaded, someone prayed, someone danced, someone met their own shadow

and people started thinking differently

and people healed

and in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways - dangerous, mindless, and heartless,

the earth began to heal ....

And when the danger ended, and people found themselves

they grieved for the dead

and they made new choices

and dreamed of new visions

and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully

just as they had been healed