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“I Took It as a Sign”
Someone sent a band to my house,
And it started playing
At five in the morning.
I took this as a sign
God wanted me to sing!
Then the moon joined in
And a few of the tenor-voiced stars,
And the earth offered its lovely belly
As a drum.
Before I knew it,
I realized
All human beings could be happy.
If only they had a
maestro like Hafez.
A setting of Hafez by Daniel Ladinsky