To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy

Music: Fugue #6 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by Yo Tomita.

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To be in full bloom is not always easy: When at an apex, one has intimations … Each stage of life is equally precious, No number of years makes a glance less infectious, The child unchanging through all perturbations. Yet … there is that which might make a rose queasy. So naked the night! So painfully luscious! Each moment limned by unclouded sensations! Vicissitudes waiting, felicities breezy, Each day brings one closer to one's limitations: Never so perfect a time to perplex us!