Mostly, I Would Like to Be Remembered

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Audio and Video Music:
Pieces en Concert
Prelude, La Tromba,
Air de Diable.
By Francois Couperin.
Performed by The Advent
Chamber Orchestra
at the Free Music Archive
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Mostly, I would like to be remembered
As someone who was passionate for life.
The days of unsought ecstasies are numbered,
However long we linger in the light.
I was one who cultivated wonder,
Less of one contented to explain,
Delighted by the promises of hunger,
Enduring for their joy the years of pain.
Gifts I had aplenty: Some I savored,
Others sacrificed for others' needs.
Remember me as someone who was favored,
Despite constraints, to tumble in the reeds,
Ocean to what winds I could not be,
Nightrider through what worlds I could not see.

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Audio and Video Music: Pieces en Concert -- Prelude, La Tromba, Air de Diable.
By Francois Couperin. Performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra
at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution/
ShareAlike
license.

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