12 The First Man
01 Human Awareness 02 Human Sadness 03 Human Wholeness
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On that happy morn of the human race
A creature so insignificant smiled
Observing deeply his own unique style
Knowingly thinking of his favoured case
Among living things in which he was placed
By him alone would knowledge be applied
And only he could speak and laugh and cry
Even at moments behave with some grace
Clear sense of awareness dawned in his mind
Sense of himself and his surrounding world
By questions and answers thus he could find The First Man
Patterns of meaning for him to unfold Soneta 034
Thinking mentally caused him to exist Petrarca
And for the cosmos he would now enlist AD 2002
Believing in life and its whole beauty
A chosen image he set out to mould
By which inner youth would never grow old
As in the times of pristine purity
Fragile, and yet this personality
Would always endure and remain quite bold
By a wisdom through which one may uphold
The dreams and hopes of all humanity
For paradise long gone and disappeared
In human hearts would remain eternal
The First Man There in ancient time human fate was sealed
Soneta 035 To an existence seemingly banal
Petrarca And yet through struggles and knowledge refined
AD 2002 Mankind would someday behold the divine
Through many ages of evolution
Mankind has journeyed far and adapted
Its life on earth and by this exalted
As master of its own dominion
Like a plant growing by occulation
Unto the One Life mankind was grafted
Dependent, and on its breath subsisted
Almost as a child needing affection
Then man discovered his identity
In the very depths of his inner soul
Being now a child of the Almighty The First Man
Of all creation unique was his role Soneta 036
For in him there was a seed of greatness Petrarca
A heavenly light that dispelled darkness AD 2002