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MUSIC OF THE WEEK

Os justi by Anton Bruckner

Tenebrae conducted by Nigel Short

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXYbEyvVXUk   

 

POEM OF THE WEEK

The Windows by George Herbert (1593 - 1633)

Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word?

    He is a brittle crazy glass;

Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford

    This glorious and transcendent place,

    To be a window, through thy grace.

 

But when thou dost anneal in glass thy story,

    Making thy life to shine within

The holy preachers, then the light and glory

    More reverend grows, and more doth win;

    Which else shows waterish, bleak, and thin.

 

Doctrine and life, colors and light, in one

    When they combine and mingle, bring

A strong regard and awe; but speech alone

    Doth vanish like a flaring thing,

    And in the ear, not conscience, ring.

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