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Audio and Video Music:
Maio Maduro Maio.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution-
ShareAlike
license.
Happy, happy holidays to you!
A bit of joy before the winter comes,
Pausing for a holiday or two,
Pausing where the ancient stream still runs.
You know, but cannot know, the generations
Having millennia before you come this way,
Over many rites and revelations
Looking to this turn of light to pray.
In each of us the ancient urge still lives,
Dressed in more contemporary clothes,
A cultural inheritance that gives
You something precious to bequeath to those
Still ready to feel joy down to their toes.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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