Out of Who We Are Comes Where We Live

Music: Nunc dimittis servum
By Daniel Lagkhner. Sequenced by Boguslaw Krawczyck at Kunst der Fuge.

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Out of who we are comes where we live, No less shaped by spirit than a shell Yielding to the one imperative On which all must depend to live life well. Underneath the word is the desire, Rembrandt to the image that we see, New vesting in old verities its fire, Evangelist for ambient ecstasy. We choose from somewhere deeper than intention, Having for such clarity no eyes, Older than the moment of dimension Manifest in fast-exploding skies, Ember of which in that chamber lies.