When Earth lacks heat, Heaven sends it; when she has lost her freshness and moisture, Heaven restores it. Heaven goes on his rounds, like a husband foraging for the wife’s sake; And Earth is busy with housewiferies: she attends to births and suckling that which she bears. {035} Regard Earth and Heaven as endowed with intelligence, since they do the work of intelligent beings. Unless these twain taste pleasure from one another, why are they creeping together like sweethearts? Without the Earth, how should flower and tree blossom? What, then, would Heaven’s water and heat produce? As God put
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