Fifty-One

Music: Erbarm mich dich, O Herre Gott
By Heinrich Bach. Sequenced by David Cooke.

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Fifty-one's a broad, slow-moving river In between the fall-line and the sea: Flowing full of rich, red-tinted clay, Taking much encountered on the way, Yet looking towards the teeming shores to be. One must be a taker and a giver: Needing, loving, wanting, swept away. Even rivers cannot help obey.