Candles Serve as Replicas of Lamps

Music: Preludes dans le tons majeurs et mineurs: Priere du soir.
By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan.
Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge. 

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Candles serve as replicas of lamps;

Holy days have shrunk to holidays;

A table is the temple; we, the priests:

Now we re-enact the miracle.

Understand, this is no parable:

Knowledge-concentrate in quaint conceits.

Ancient wisdom works in ancient ways:

Here we share an echo of its sense.

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