Sense Is Not the Sense of Celebrations

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Sense is not the sense of celebrations.
Each holiday is founded on a myth.
And though it might be good for good relations,
Some would stamp it fantasy forthwith.
Oil for one day never lasted eight,
Nor did a virgin once give birth to God.
Stories store beliefs long out of date,
Gifts of faith that there's no need to prod.
Rejoice, then, in a sensibility
Embracing both the fable and the fact,
Each, in fact, an equal mystery,
Though one's a working truth and one's an act.
If one can find a way to look both ways,
No nagging doubt need dim the holidays.
Giving voice to what by right is wrong,
Sing of the truth in the beauty of the song.

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Video and Audio Music: Gymnopedie No. 1.
By Erik Satie. Music free to use at YouTube.

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