Baroque Christmas (with Cancer)

11/25/2018

My soul seeks celebration,
Wondrous bright decoration.

Bring holly and ivy, and garlands unfurled.
And sing Baroque carols; lighten my world.
But no! How their beauty does wring my heart sore.
I weep and cry out. I cannot take more.
Yet Rudolph and Santa, leave me empty and hollow.
So play on Baroque carols and let the tears follow!

So play on symphonies de Noels,
O Jesu mi Dulcissime,
In Nativitatum Domini Canticum,
And Harmonia Caelestis.
Prepare ye the way for the
Jubilate! Alleluia! and Gloria!

by Elizabeth Crispina Johnson

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Margo

12/18/2018 11:10:21 am

On that lovely/sad note: Terry and I attended the Bemidji High School Christmas Concert last night. Beautiful and amazingly, mostly religious-Welsh carols, French carols, some traditional, some madrigal, some new, and all beautiful and wonderfully faith full! God be praised.

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