The metaphors of scattering and gathering stones, embracing and refraining from embrace, extend the pattern of opposites to human relationship and action. The specific imagery of stones—whether literal (in agriculture) or metaphorical (in building)—suggests productive labor; the seasons of stone-scattering and stone-gathering frame human work within nature's larger cycles. The mention of embracing introduces intimacy and physical relationship into the cosmic order, suggesting that even love participates in this rhythm of approach and separation.

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