Life Blessed Me with a Sunny Disposition

Music: Fugue in Eb Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2. By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by Yo Tomita.

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Life blessed me with a sunny disposition Even as I lived through terrible storms. Sport was my passion; justice was my mission. The world, I thought, was something one reforms. Embrace it, then, with all your warmth and joy! Rebel, as I did, for, and not against, Resolving to create, not to destroy, Open-armed and loving, not incensed. Delight, exuberance, a child's wonder -- Not naively did I these display. Even though the wide world split asunder, Yet one needs to live and love and play.