Rapture Comes Most Easily Within

Music: Fantasia 5.
By Giovanni Bassano.
Sequenced by Curtis Clark at The Internet Renaissance Band
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Nicholas Gordon

Rapture comes most easily within
A discipline that divvies up the day,
Making time for timelessness, and space,
A rolled-up rectangle holy anyplace,
Dear temple of delight where one might pray,
Assigned some sweet-tongued verses to begin
Now hallowing this hollow cask of clay.

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