Evidence of Paradise

Music: Ricercare a 3 from the Musical Offering
By J.S. Bach. Sequencer Unknown. Revised by David J. Grossman at Kunst der Fuge.

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Evidence of paradise Veils its rainbowed wings, Enters life like one of us, Like spirit wrapped in things. Yet angels sing in Bethlehem No more than in Mobile, And kings careen through Rocky Mount No less than through Jezreel. Dream, then, of the bitter wind, Nights for which one yearns In sorrow and unsullied joy, Child on whom life turns, Older than the universe, Love haunting, hurting, healing, worse, An anguished joy one can't reverse So long as blood still burns.