Holding in clear handsThe world’s true lightShe lifts its perfect flameAgainst the night. About its pulse of fireEarth and seas run,Season and moon and star,The unruly sun. Upon the hill a scuffedThinness of snow,First of green thorn, a streamStopped in its flow. She keeps within her handThe careful dayNow the slow wound of nightHas bledContinue reading “Mother and Child by Charles Causley”
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Release me from this life
Since Thou hast become life and resurrection for all men through Thy goodness,Release me from this life.Thou Who art immortal, and send me away from this life, which is mortal:Give my body over to mortal death, as with all Thy friends,But grant me, Merciful One, life spiritual and eternal.Since I have seen Thee in theContinue reading “Release me from this life”
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