To My Grandchild, with Overwhelming Love

Music: Fugue in F Minor
By Dimitri Shostakovich.  Sequenced by J. Marques.

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To my grandchild, with overwhelming love: On you may fortune smile with ample blessings. May your happiness persistent prove. Yet may you, in your angry inner wrestlings, Grant others the compassion you'd be given, Restoring not their sunlight, but your own. All your life may what you do be driven Not by others' ends, but yours alone. Days of awe and wonder may you cherish, Clarity and mystery the same: Hymns antiphonal that never perish, Imitating truths you cannot name. Let love of life make your life ever new, Deep and rich as is my love for you.