Passover Seders Are like the Night Sky

Music: Erev Shel Shoshanim. Found at the Israeli Midi Free Library.

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Passover Seders are like the night sky: A moment of moments long past and just gone; Starlight years old next to planets nearby Shining as though joined in one joyous song. Over our heads is a book of the ages Vividly chanting the stories of old, Even as under our fingers are pages Resplendent with light come from cauldrons now cold. So may we gaze at the past in the present, Each prayer a jewel in a darkness undone, Destined to light on our eyes in a moment Embracing all slaves out from Egypt as one. Rejoice, then, in this living graveyard of light, Singing the words, that they last one more night.