Hours Mean No More or Less than Years

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Clarinet Concerto in A:
Adagio.
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls
Symphony Orchestra
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Hours mean no more or less than years.
A moment is a point with no dimension.
People count to undermine their fears,
Persuaded numbers lead to comprehension.
Yet time is an illusion of our motion,
No realer than the rising of the sun.
Each line we draw rests on a restless ocean,
Way, way beyond the scalable scope of one.
Years do not begin and never end
Except for purposes of calibration.
A need to share our yearnings, friend to friend,
Requires just one point of celebration.

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Video Music: Clarinet Concerto in A: Adagio. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Performed by Jason Weinberger and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra
at the Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons Attribution license.



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