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Up the spiral staircase

to the side of the hill

with sweeping grass and whispering wind

step off the wooden step

and into the cloudy sunny day

where the breeze flows by your face

and you walk along the side of the hill

until you reach a dirt path 

that takes you down to the edge of a lake

and you walk along the lake

under the drooping overhanging shelter of weeping willow trees

There you meet a rabbit

who says that the stars are falling across the way

and you follow the rabbit 

along a path through the trees on the edge of the forest

until you come out of the trees to the foot of a hill

and you climb the hill 

as twilight has fully fallen upon the earth

and when you reach the crest of the hill

and round it to the very top

night is coming to the sky

And you sit down in the soft wavy grass

with the rabbit sitting nearby

 and look out across the wide open sky

soon it has fully turned to night

a full night sky vast and deep

with bright twinkling stars spread out across the black sky

And then a star falls

streaking in beauty across the sky

and then more start falling in streams

and you stretch your legs out

as you watch the shower of stars

with the warm spring night all around