Slow And Swiftly

Life goes all at once so slow and swiftly
Summer is vast, green, but cold winter comes
Life goes all at once so swift and slowly

The years are stately in their settled gaits
spring is so lusty, fall is so gusty
Life goes all at once so slow and swiftly

Love is a flower whose bloom is beauty
Joy passes in the blinking of an eye
Life goes all at once so swift and slowly

A single thought lasts as long as I do,
Yet something endures of my beating heart
Life goes all at once so slow and swiftly

To sing is to live in others, to find
a path beyond the personal, myself,
how melody makes me, not the reverse
Life goes all at once so swift and slowly

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