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book of change
06:38
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For those who never know the light
The darkness is a sullen thing
And they the children of the night
Seem lost in fortunes winnowing
And if there be no other life
And if there be no other chance
To weigh their sorrow and their strife
Than in the scales of circumstance
‘twere better ere the sun go down
upon the first day we embark
in life’s imbittered sea to drown
than sail forever in the dark
But if there be a soul on earth
So blinded with its own misuse
Of man’s revealed incessant worth
Or worn with anguish that it views
No light but for the mortal eye
No rest but of a mortal sleep
No God but in a prophet’s lie
No faith for honest doubt to keep
If there be nothing good or bad
But chaos for a soul to trust
God counts it for a soul gone mad
And if God be God He is just
But some are strong and some are
Weak and there’s the story
House and home are shut from
Countless hearts that seek
World-refuge that will never come
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stay on
04:18
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At morn at noon at twilight dim
In joy and sorrow in good and ill
On desolate land in valleys of green
Mother of God be with me still
When the hours flew brightly by
Not a cloud obscured the sky
My soul lest it should truant be
Thy grace did guide to thine and thee
Now, when storms of fate overcast
Darkly my present and my past
Stay on
And when the sun shine no more
Let me want no further more
For life and death are one even as the river
And the sea
For life and death are one even as the river
And the sea
Stay on
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roses
05:44
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Down every passage of the cloister hung
A darkwood cross on a white plaster wall
But in the court were roses
Something of Christ’s blood grown small
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aravod luys
03:14
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be still
04:04
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Be still, the hanging gardens were a dream
That over Persian roses flew to kiss
The sunset seem
The world is very old and nothing is
Be still
Thou foolish thing, thou canst not wake
Nor thy tears wedge thy soldered lids
Lids apart
Be still
Blind with the light of life
Thou shall not forsake
And error loves and nourishes thy soul
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temples
05:56
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These temples grew as grows the grass
Art might obey but not surpass
And the same power that reared the shrine
Bestrode the tribes that knelt within
The word unto the prophet spoken
Was writ on tables yet unbroken
The word by seers or sibyls told
In groaves of oak and fanes of gold
Still floats upon the morning wind
One flame and the countless host
Seek the heart that never shows
Still whispers to the willing mind
In groaves of oak and fanes of gold
The word by seers or sibyls told
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somehow
01:34
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jardin
04:16
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Nous n’irons plus au bois les lauriers sont coupés
Les amours des basins les naïades en groupes
Voient reluire au soleil en cristaux découpés
Les flots silencieux qui coulaient de leur coupe
Les lauriers sont coupes et les cerfs aux abois
Tressaille au son du corps nous n’irons plus au bois
Ou des enfants riait la folle troupe
Sous les regards des lys aux pleurs du ciel trempés
Voici l’herbe qu’on fauche et les lauriers qu’on coupe
Nous n’irons plus au bois les lauriers sont coupes
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fill my heart
03:55
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Fill my heart of hearts where death installed you
In setting my lonely heart and spirit free
Not the demons down under the deepest sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul of your beauty
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes of thee
And so the night tide I lie down by the side of you
My life and my bride in her tomb by the side of the sea
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traffic lights
08:15
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Again the traffic lights that skim thy swift
Unfractioned idiom immaculate sigh of stars
Beading thy path condense eternity
And we have seen night lifted in thine arms
Under thy shadow by the piers I waited
Only in darkness is thy shadow so clear
The city’s fiery parcels all undone
Already snow submerges an iron year
O sleepless as the river under thee
Vaulting the sea the prairies dreaming sod
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God
Under thy shadow by the piers I waited
Only in darkness is thy shadow so clear
The city’s fiery parcels all undone
Already snow submerges an iron year
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11. |
arev tibav
04:45
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Deleyaman
Deleyaman is a French-American band founded in 2000 by Aret Madilian, Beatrice Valantin and Gerard Madilian. Their sound
can't be pigeon-holed into a single genre, it has been described as enigmatic and poetic. They are the first alternative band to have included the ancient wind instrument, the duduk, in their permanent line-up.
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