the natal, n.All

The Natal (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠outside: the intense center of a territory may lie where distant territories converge — salmon returning to the source, tens of millions of chaffinches assembling.

The Natal (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the innate, but decoded, and the acquired, but territorialized; its affect, as heard in the lied, is to be forever lost, or refound, or aspiring to the unknown homeland.