To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you
but know how to fill your hands.
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find
abundance and be satisfied.
Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will
lead some to greed and others to hunger.
When in the market place you toilers of the sea and fields and
vineyards meet the weavers and the potters and the gatherers of
spices,---
Invoke then the master of the earth, to come into your midst and
sanctify the scales and the reckoning that weighs value against
value.
And suffer not the barren-handed to take part in your transactions,
who would sell their words for your labour.
To such men you should say,
"Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and
cast your net;
For the land and sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us."
And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute
players, ---buy of their gifts also.
For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that
which they bring , though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food
for your soul.
And before you leave the market place, see that no one has gone
his way with empty hands.
For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully
upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satitisfied.
