Remove Your Shoes
Gershom Shofman
1949
Remove your shoes from your feet and, barefoot, feel the earth!
Whatever was in the past and be what may now—today the land is ours, the heavens are ours, and the sea is our sea.
Let us go out to the field and thirstily drink in the whiteness of the daisies on the lawn, the gold of the groundsel, the tremor of the clover.
Look at the children…
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Gershom Shofman
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