UNITED NATIONS
الأمم المتحدة | United Nations | Organisation des Nations unies
Организация Объединённых Наций | Naciones Unidas| 联合国
الأمم المتحدة | United Nations | Organisation des Nations unies
Организация Объединённых Наций | Naciones Unidas| 联合国
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(in English)
Eagerly, musician, sweep your string,
So we may sing, elated, optative.
Our several voices interblending,
Not interfering, but co-inhering.
For all within the cincture
Of the sound is holy ground,
Where all are brothers,
None faceless Others.
Let mortals beware of words,
For with words we lie.
Can say peace,
When we mean war.
Foul thought speak fair,
And promise falsely.
But song is true:
Let music for peace be the paradigm.
For peace means to change,
At the right time,
As the World-Clock
Goes Tick and Tock.
Tick- and Tock.
So may the story of our human city,
Presently move like music, when begotten notes.
New notes beget making the flowing.
Making the flowing of time a growing.
Till what it could be, at last it is.
Where even sadness is a form of gladness,
Where fate is freedom,
Grace and Surprise.
Grace and Surprise.
Eagerly, musician, sweep your string,
So we may sing, elated, optative.
Our several voices interblending,
Not interfering, but co-inhering.
For all within the cincture
Of the sound is holy ground,
Where all are brothers,
None faceless Others.
Let mortals beware of words,
For with words we lie.
Can say peace,
When we mean war.
Foul thought speak fair,
And promise falsely.
But song is true:
Let music for peace be the paradigm.
For peace means to change,
At the right time,
As the World-Clock
Goes Tick and Tock.
Tick- and Tock.
So may the story of our human city,
Presently move like music, when begotten notes.
New notes beget making the flowing.
Making the flowing of time a growing.
Till what it could be, at last it is.
Where even sadness is a form of gladness,
Where fate is freedom,
Grace and Surprise.
Grace and Surprise.