To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty

Music: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
By  J.S. Bach. Sequenced by George Pollen.

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To be consumed by something more than beauty, Holding in one's hand the sense of all, Innocent of self, of interest pure, Reaching for a grace that will endure, The fragments of a light beyond the wall Yielding truth with neither rage nor pity; Seized by inner craftsmen, skilled and sure, In reverent abandon, ruthless awe, X-ing out the fruits of one's own fancy . . .