You Cannot Get Away from Being Plural

Music: Preludes dans le tons majeurs et mineurs: #17. Lento
By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan. Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge.

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You cannot get away from being plural; On you must rest the burden of my sin. Moreover, your self-portrait is a mural, Kaleidoscope of intimates within. In what you say I find my inspiration, Perhaps unfairly making you my guide. Penitence presumes that expectation, Uniting outer good with good inside, Relating my perversion to your pride.