Updates for 'Some Definite Service', a blog of oddments: poetry, music, churches, landscapes, traditions. Tweets by @FernandDouin
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St. David's Day!
'In a fold of the furthest west,
Here is my stone-ribbed nest...'
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A few thoughts on the tenth anniversary of the ‘Some Definite Service’ blog:
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We pray that in your love you hear this prayer,
Although your grace is cried for everywhere.
To save us from despair, we need you near us:
Lord, graciously hear us.
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So we on earth, we should be saints as well;
We wayward wayfarers whom they invite
To blaze with love; to set the world alight;
To join them in the joy in which they dwell.
Happy All Saints' Day!
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Happy Lincolnshire Day! Here to mark the day is the tale of St. James' church in Louth, England's third-tallest medieval structure, and of the sermon preached there by the vicar on this day in 1536, which began the Lincolnshire Rising.
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'Neither wealth nor fame they reap,
But they have a different reward:
These men see the works of the Lord
And his wonders in the deep.'
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#SeaSunday
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The Suburban Romantics: an idea for a new line of poetic endeavour
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‘Spring came by water to Broadoak this year...’ A century since the Severnside spring that inspired F. W. Harvey's poem...
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‘This spirit, this power, this holder together of space
Is about, is aware, is working in your breathing.’
On Elizabeth Jennings, a Catholic poet for our times:
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