The Past Is Never Over

Music: O vos omnes.
By Tomas Luis de Victoria.
Performed by the Tudor Consort at The Free Music Archive
under an Attribution - Non-Commercial license.

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The past is never over, nor
The future ever here.
Shards beneath the sand contain
Old verses of our hymns.

In Time there are no endings, nor
Can lines be very clear.
The bones of ancient hominids
Linger in our limbs.

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