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For Jim, Easter Eve
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For Jim, Easter Eve was released on June 13, 2025 by Lexicon Classics as a part of the album In This Short Life
ReleasedJune 13, 2025
LabelLexicon Classics
LanguageEnglish
BPM113
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Lyrics

If ever a garden was Gethsemane,
with old tombs set high against
the crumpled olive tree--and lichen,
this, my garden, has been to me.
For such as I none other is so sweet:
Lacking old tombs, here stands my grief,
and certainly its ancient tree.
Peace is here and in every season
a quiet beauty.
The sky falling about me
evenly to the compass . . .
What is sorrow but tenderness now
in this earth-close frame of land and sky
falling constantly into horizons
of east and west, north and south;
what is pain but happiness here
amid these green and wordless patterns,--
indefinite texture of blade and leaf:
Beauty of an old, old tree,
last comfort in Gethsemane.
Written by: Anne Spencer, Will Liverman

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