Happiness Depends on Lighting Lights

Music: Preludes dans le tons majeurs et mineurs: #17. Lento. By Charles Henri Valentin Alkan. Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge. Subscribe to this site on Substack Subscribe to this site on YouTube Subscribe to this site on Medium

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Happiness depends on lighting lights, As what one does without reflects within. People plead the poignance of their plights, Pleased to play the hapless harlequin. Yet one must purify the sacred temple, Haul the lamps up, clean them, set them out, Acting to await the miracle, Neither seized by fear nor free of doubt. Underneath all miracles is faith, Knowing not, but hoping what might be, Kindled by the will, though pain and death Assault with darkness all that one can see Here, where all is here miraculously. Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.