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Music:
The Fall.
By Peter Rudenko. Performed by Peter Rudenko at the
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under a Creative
Commons Attribution
license.
Here is common cause for
celebration
As light lengthens, harbinger of spring.
Perhaps the cold will be of long duration:
Patience, for you know what time will bring.
Yearning is the partner of sensation,
Heightening the glory of the thing.
Open, then, your heart to dark December;
Listen to the silent turn of time
In which the light is scattered into embers;
Days on which the remnants barely shine,
As miserly and cold as you remember.
Yet here in darkness starts the upward climb,
Stepping towards the downward days of
summer.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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