Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands

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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.

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Time passes like a stream in which one stands.
How strange and beautiful! Life goes by
In moments that run through one's open hands,
Real in ways that none can clarify,
Though like a dream that only seems to be.
Yet every moment is eternity. So might one commandeer what life commands,
Infinite beyond all how or why,
X upon a calm and windless sea.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

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.

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