The First True Sign of Love Is Anger

Music: Close Thine Eyes. By Henry Purcell. Sequenced by David Cooke.

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The first true sign of love is anger: What we need, we're likely to resent. Each needing, needed, leaned on, leaning, No longer free standing stone and white. The wistful, tender fear of finity Yields a darker shimmer of sublimity. Now indeed some sunny, delicate blight Inaugurates a subterranean keening. None can turn away and not be bent, Each in each part self, part untouched stranger.