Because, then
                          if, then, then even as
                                                              such as in voice-over.

" 'because,' Schubert writes …"
                                               " 'Nevertheless, your life / seems to me wide with potential because of your / . . .' "

"because" pageant:
                                  to give voice to a cause
                                                                           choir

to ascertain causes beyond rhetoric
                                                           chorus.

Causality in lyric is trying.
                                          A song, a song beyond rhetoric
                                                                                              ours

insofar as . . .
                         let us each in turn declare

causes
               the disenchantment to which we write cheques

"Nevertheless, your life / seems to me wide with potential because of your /
                                                                                                                          modesty:'
                                                                                                                                            A vocal

" 'because,' Schubert writes"
                                               a voiceprint

" 'as if,' Franz Schubert writes"
                                                    I am here

"because" pageant in the twentieth century.
                                                                       A path limited
                                                                                                mitered, yet a path

because, in the sense of
                                          "That I am here"
                                                                       Encore

or to give voice to a cause beyond rhetoric.
                                                                       Let us each voice
                                                                                                       (the vocals of ... )

the causes to which we do in fact write cheques.
                                                                               (Tell 'em, Ella.)