Grant Me The Carving Of My Name
Mar. 27th, 2015 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI caught the replay of Richard's interment. Like everything else in the sequence of ritual it was more or less note perfect. I particularly approved the opening hymn- words by GK. Chesterton, music by Anon as arranged by Vaughan Williams: they couldn't have chosen better.
O God of earth and altar
Bow down and hear our cry
Our earthly rulers falter
Our people drift and die...
Talking about appropriate words,there was a poem written for the occasion by Carol Ann Duffy. I haven't been much of a fan of her work- but this was magic. They had Benedict Cumberbatch read it. He turns out to be distantly related to the Plantagenets- though by now I suspect everyone in England is- apart, of course, from the current royals.
There's been a lot of media hostility to what Leicester has laid on.The Mail sneers, the Guardian blusters. It baffles me. All I can think of while breasting the foam is, "Have they no poetry in their souls?"
O God of earth and altar
Bow down and hear our cry
Our earthly rulers falter
Our people drift and die...
Talking about appropriate words,there was a poem written for the occasion by Carol Ann Duffy. I haven't been much of a fan of her work- but this was magic. They had Benedict Cumberbatch read it. He turns out to be distantly related to the Plantagenets- though by now I suspect everyone in England is- apart, of course, from the current royals.
There's been a lot of media hostility to what Leicester has laid on.The Mail sneers, the Guardian blusters. It baffles me. All I can think of while breasting the foam is, "Have they no poetry in their souls?"
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Date: 2015-03-27 08:35 pm (UTC)I am glad to hear it. I like the last lines of that poem especially.
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Date: 2015-03-28 10:24 am (UTC)