A Prayer to Earth

To be said when planting and harvesting.

Holy Mother, green and growing

Be fruitful and fecund,

Grant to us life and health and happiness,

And fertile lands and people.

Bless us with grain and game,

Fruit and fountains clear

Accept our offerings

And return them in kind.

Look on us with favor and not wrath,

Though we take from you our sustenance.

Blessed be you and all your kin

That dwell in this world and all others.

And mindful we shall be,

From the days of our ancestors

To those of our children’s children

That we keep the balance,

Lest your scythe spin,

And your wrath devour us.