Holidays Are Memories in Waiting

Music: Wann ich des Morgens frueh aufsteh'.
By Ludwig Senfl.
Sequenced by Curtis Clark, at The Internet Renaissance Band.

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Holidays are memories in waiting,
Amply fitted out to linger long.
Perhaps it is the food, the gifts, the song;
Perhaps the love that keeps the light from fading.
Years pass, traditions blend, people change;
Holidays endure, each generation
Offering its own fond re-creation
Lest the next find such sweet labors strange.
In memory the secret's repetition:
Delight anticipated is delight
Approaching a predictable condition,
Yearly replicating a rendition
So that on holidays each note sounds right.

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