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Audio and Video Music:
Life.
By Damiano Baldoni.
Performed by
Damiano Baldoni
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
license.
Harbingers of happiness, awake!
And dreams abandoned, return from restless sleep!
Past hopes, whom bitter wanderers forsake,
Promise once again what will might reap!
Years turn and turn, at each new turn reborn,
New imagined by redeemers new,
Each in turn vouchsafed a festive dawn,
Wind driven towards a sky of darker hue.
Yearning is of innocence a cause,
Embracing with delight what ought to be,
As once a year even truth takes pause,
Reflecting on what other eyes might
see.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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