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Psalm of the Bright Returning: Unitas Panthea Canticle III

Psalm of the Bright Returning

Unitas Panthea Canticle III

Ave! Ave!
The day is born anew.
Ave! Ave!
All life returns to You.

Ave Vestaria, Hearth of Flame,
Mother of All That Bears a Name.

Ave Di Immortales, shining bright,
Ave Maiores, guiding light.

The sun returns upon the hills,
and wakes the sleeping land.
The rivers lift their silver voice
as life moves through the sand.

The world is not forgotten dust,
nor silence without form—
but living breath and woven fire
that keeps the cosmos warm.

Make a joyful noise, O world!
Let your voice be free!

Ave! Ave!
Let all creation sing with me!

From root to star, from sky to sea,
all things rise in harmony.

Ave! Ave!
The Flame is what we see!

The gods are in the turning wind,
in grain and stone and rain.
In laughter shared around the hearth,
and in the healing of pain.

No place is void of sacred breath,
no path is walked alone.
For every step is witnessed by
the living Flame enthroned.

O Vestaria, still and bright,
You dwell in every heart.
The center that unites all things
and never drifts apart.

When we are lost, You gather us.
When we are cold, You stay.
The Flame within all living things
that never fades away.

Ave! Ave!
Let the morning break in song!

Ave! Ave!
Let the faithful all belong!

Ave Vestaria!
Ave Immortales!
Ave Ancestors of old!

We are the fire remembering itself,
we are the story told.

Ave! Ave!
Let the world return to joy!

From Flame we came,
in Flame we live,
to Flame we return again.

Ave Vestaria.
Ave Di Immortales.
Ave Maiores.

Ave.
Ave.
Ave.

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