Forty-Five

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Video Music: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Op7 no1 mvt3. By George Friedrich Handel. Performed by the Advent Orchestra at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution - Share Alike license.

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Forty-five is full of unheard music,
Organist in the chapel of his soul,
Reverent beneath a reverberant dome
That like stone lace lets in the noontide light.
Yearning for the organist to use them,
Fleeting phrases hope that he will choose them,
Integrating them into a whole
Vast enough to compass day and night,
Eternal in its well-wrought womb of stone.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

Video Music: Concerto for Organ and Orchestra Op7 no1 mvt3. By George Friedrich Handel.
Performed by the Advent Orchestra at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution - Share Alike license.

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