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Shining in mid-winter
The unfashionable Cornish poet and playwright Charles Causley died in 2003. At an Advent service in Dorchester Abbey I heard what may be one of his greatest poems, 'I am the great sun': From a Normandy crucifix of 1632 I am the great sun, but you do not see me, I am your husband, but y... Read more ...
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'They shall not grow old as we grow old'
Plaintive thoughts on Remembrance Day morning A cold, grey morning on a village green in Oxfordshire. A patch of marble chippings and three of us clutching our wreaths, lined out before the little war memorial. The names of a dozen or so from the village, fallen in two World Wars. The pari... Read more ...
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