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Video Music:
Concerto Grosso
in G Minor 1.
By Arcangelo Corelli.
Performed by
the Advent Orchestra
at The Free Music Archive
under an Attribution-
Share Alike
license.
Make what you will of martyrdom, a mother
Opts for saintly sacrifice of self,
Taking for her centerpiece another,
Having crossed that great, unquiet gulf.
Each must choose to give herself away,
Redeemed alone by love each hard-earned day,
Sensing grace too beautiful to utter.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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