26 February 2008

Song of the day: "Sunday" by Stephen Sondheim

The triumphant finale to both acts in the musical; it's a celebration of the creative process.

From Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday,
By the blue
Purple yellow red water
On the green
Purple yellow red grass,
Let us Pass
Through our perfect park,
Pausing on a Sunday
By the cool
Blue triangular water
On the soft
Green elliptical grass
As we pass
Through arrangements of shadows
Towards the verticals of trees
Forever...

By the blue
Purple yellow red water
On the green
Orange violet mass
Of the grass
In our perfect park

Made of flecks of light
And dark,
And parasols:

People strolling through the trees
Of a small suburban park
On an island in the river
On an ordinary Sunday...
Sunday...
Sunday...

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