Beware of Inequalities Too Wide

Music: Chaconne from the Suite in E Flat By  Gustav Holst. Sequenced by George Pollen.

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Beware of inequalities too wide And chasms that cannot be bridged by dreams. Societies fray first along the seams, Then rip apart, exposing rot inside. In chaos hopes for liberty abide. Life in its Edenic newness gleams, Lending death the surfeit of its beams. Ecstatic ghosts across the wastelands glide. Do, then, recall the day of the Bastille As one whose burst of glory would reveal Yearnings yet awaiting the next tide.