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Audio and Video Music:
The Scent
of Cedars.
By Philipp Weigl.
Performed by
Philipp Weigl
at the Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
License.
Happiness is wholly in
one's power
As one provides the chords to fit the tune,
Pleased to play sweet music by the hour,
Pleased to harmonize one's passing gloom.
Yet there are days demanding dissonance,
Needing harsh accompaniment to pain.
Embrace them, then, and give them resonance,
With brass enough to brighten a refrain.
Years are symphonies of varied mood,
Each sketched out by fate, filled in by you.
As the woodwinds dance, the basses brood,
Resolved in beauty - crafted, yes, but
true.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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