Home Is a Myth That Must Be Recreated
Music: Cappricio in G.
By Johann
Jakob Froberger. From the free classical
sheet music collection of the
W. Icking Archive,
ed.
by Michel Rondeau at Kunst der
Fuge.
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Home is a myth
that must be recreated As every generation comes of
age, Placed by their own children
on the stage Precisely when their
fantasies have
faded. Yet one is more than amply
compensated For playing well the
well-wrought saint or
sage, As love wells up beneath the
camouflage, The truth that makes the
myth immaculate. How beautiful it is to be a
father! Emperor forever of a
dream Repeated through the
labyrinths of
longing ‘Mid memories more true than
what has been. Sing, then, of myths that
tie one to
another Deep beneath the bulwarks of
belonging, As tales begun before the
words begin Yet fabricate the worlds in which words mean. |
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