Lest You Leave Your Options in the Sunshine

Music: Voluntarie. By William Byrd. Performed by John Sankey.

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Lest you leave your options in the sunshine Unprotected from night's bitter shade, Now you may take them on the lunar wind, Alive to phantoms vivid as your face Reveling in front of reason's door. Nor could your own inventions offer more, Even those transfigured from your race, Which, privatized, seem downsized, somehow thinned. Yet here is all the wealth the past has made, Each relic dipped in age-old vintage wine, A treasure-trove of comedy and grace Resting where your faith must go forth blind.