"This, then is our desert:
to live facing despair,
but not to consent.
To trample it down under hope in the Cross.
To wage war against despair unceasingly.
That war is our wilderness.
If we wage it courageously,
we will find Christ at our side.
If we cannot face it,
we will never find him."
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Rise heart, thy Lord is Risen
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (from his Five Mystical Songs), words, of course, by George Herbert. Thomas Allen, baritone, with the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin
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