Ninety

Music: Fugue in F Minor. By Dimitri Shostakovich.  Sequenced by J. Marques.

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Ninety is a mixed but welcome blessing. In simply being, knowing, loving, wanting -- Not without pain, not without thoughts of rest, Each day an arduous, familiar test -- There is joy, a music sweet but haunting, Yearning for the grace it is expressing.