Even Trees Awake to a Breakfast of Light

Music: Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus 1
By J.S. Bach. Sequencer unknown. Modified by David Grossman.

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Even trees awake to a breakfast of light. In hungry excitement they elevate their leaves, Great green choirs with ten thousand open mouths, Hosanna-ing the sun from silent boughs. Trees know glory with neither sound nor sight, Yet spread their limbs with phototropic ease. No one knows the inwardness of trees; Imagination, though, rapport allows: Nor sickness, fire, drought, nor age, nor blight Erodes their silent worship of delight.