Holy Ground

"Angel" Glimpsed Praying in Woods

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Take off your shoes from your feet,

for the place on which you are standing

is holy ground.

(Exodus 3:5)

Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God:

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,

The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning