How Have the Years So Suddenly Gone By

Music:  Kinderszenen: Kind im Einschlummern. By Robert Schumann. Live performance by an unknown pianist at Kunst der Fuge.

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How have the years so suddenly gone by? As though we were distracted on a train, Perhaps absorbed in fantasy, terrain Passing shuttered from the inner eye. Yet when the train stops, shuddering through each car -- Holiday or birthday, wedding, wake -- Old enough to feel time's wistful ache, Looking up, we wonder where we are. In time, we see the need for celebration; Days unmarked are lost within the flow. A journey needs its moment in the station, Yielding motion to restored relation, So fleeting one is loathe to let it go.