Now filled with the life giving pluviam, this wild font becomes a baptismal offering to its local home.
Looking down, one feels that natures jeweller has set a perfect emerald within this bower of stone.
From this precious verdant jem, life arises out of the crystalline heart, reaching toward our day star.
There is such sad perfection in this tiny cosmos, as it is a world destined to shrivel to dust in a few short weeks.
The remains and seeds will be blown by the four winds into hidden corners of the ecology, here they await their time to reanimate and enliven this great bastion of stone once more.

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