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Gymnopedie No.3.
By Erik Satie. Arranged by Wahneta Meixsell.
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Illustration Credit: AI
Perhaps there is no richer ritual:
A stirring tale, food, wine, prayer, and song,
Some history -- some real, some mythical --
Soul-seeds sown each spring, who knows how long?
One comes and goes; the memory remains,
Vividly present to each generation.
Enduring by evolving, it retains,
Restores, renews the ID of a nation.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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