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Music:
Clarinet Concerto in A: Adagio.
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Performed by Jason Weinberger and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra
at the Free
Music Archive under a Creative
Commons Attribution license.
Life
sings with an extraordinary passion,
Intent on being all one can afford.
For those who let their love their fortune
fashion,
Eden is indeed a just reward.
So might we live in paradise unending
If only we would see the salient sea,
Needing need with honesty unbending,
Grace to love so long and well that we,
Singing each to each, might simply
be.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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