From My Present Mountaintop

Music: Fugue in F# Major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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From my present mountaintop I look back whence I came: An unexpected passage through Some bleak and rough terrain. I look on what you did for me: The years of borrowed days, The sacrifice of liberty That only love repays; The grace with which you gave yourselves, Though not without great cost, Not blaming me for fortune's gift Nor counting what was lost. I feel a flood of gratitude Like sunlight through my heart, A light that lights the candle of The life about to start.