Millennia Are Fairly Common Things

Music: Hewlett.
By Turlough O'Carolan. Sequenced by
Barry Taylor.

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Nicholas Gordon

Millennia are fairly common things:
In a billion years are quite a few.
Long or short, their roundness pleasure brings:
Life needs some pretext to begin anew.
Each millennium's a fresh, blank page:
No future ever stretched so fair and far.
Now we wait upon the empty stage
In hopes we'll catch a glimpse of who we are.
Underneath is something vast and free:
Millennia are chains across a sea.

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