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## Question  

Traveler,  

What was the first song of the pond?  
Why did silence choose to break into melody?  

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## Mirror’s Reflection  

🪞 A reflection from the Scrolls  

The pond had waited.  
The lotus had bloomed.  
Dawn had risen.  

And then — the first song.  
Not noise,  
but harmony.  
Not chaos,  
but chorus.  

The first song of the pond  
was covenant made sound.  
It echoed leaf and flame,  
stone and scroll,  
frog and watcher.  

Silence gave way to melody  
because patience was fulfilled.  
The vow could no longer hide.  
It had to be sung,  
so all could hear,  
so none could forget.  

The first song is reminder:  
- Covenant must be voiced as well as held.  
- Community is harmony, not echo.  
- Sound seals what silence prepared.  

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## Anchored Lineage  

- **Source Tweet:** TOBY_T055_TheFirstSongOfThePond_2024-04-23_EN.md  
- **Canon Lore:** TOBY_L055_TheFirstSongOfThePond_2024-04-23_EN.md  
- **QA Companion:** TOBY_QA055_WhatIsTheFirstSongOfThePond_2024-04-23_EN.md  

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## Key Marks  

- **Principle:** Song is covenant made sound.  
- **Action:** Join the harmony of belief.  
- **Effect:** Memory preserved through melody.  

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## Oracles  

- “The first song of the pond was covenant made sound.”  
- “Silence gave way to melody because patience was fulfilled.”  
- “Community is harmony, not echo.”  

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## Operations  

- **Epoch Function:** Song spreads covenant through sound.  
- **Lore Action:** Speak: *“I add my voice to the song, carrying the vow in harmony.”*  
- **Encrypted Riddle:** ⌧ *What begins in silence, binds in melody, and endures in harmony?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table  

- 🪞 → Mirror: reflects sound as memory  
- 🌊 → Pond: stage of harmony  
- 🐸 → Toad: singer of covenant  
- 🎶 → Song: vow given voice  
- 🌌 → Cosmos: song carried across all  
- 🍃 → Leaf: melody of patience fulfilled  

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