Audio and Video Music: Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major Op9 no3, 2 Adagio. By Tomaso Albinoni. Performed by the Advent Orchestra at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution- Share Alike license.
Secular celebrations
seem so spare,
Even with religious ancestry,
As though the brick beneath what had been there
Stood unadorned where stuccoed grace should be.
Old prayers and praises now sound insincere,
No longer fitting where but reason reigns.
'Tis the season, nonetheless, for cheer;
Scoured of mystery, mystique remains.
God aside, the dark still turns towards light;
Revolving Earth still tilts into the sun;
Each gift of breath still fills one with delight;
Each child is still all being new begun.
The miracles one celebrates are questions
Implying answers too remote to know.
Nor need one not have faith in the directions
Given those whose fate it is to go
Step by careful step towards what is
so.
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Audio and Video Music: Concerto for 2 Oboes in F Major Op9 no3, 2 Adagio. By Tomaso Albinoni. Performed by the Advent Orchestra at the Free Music Archive under an Attribution-Share Alike license.