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Serenity

Enthusiastic? Yes, I'd qualify. I can get more than used to having things around: Can, for a good while, praise them to the sky Or drive them into the ground. Serene? I think......

The Death Of Bishop John

The air turned heavy, and the sky grew dark, the trees in the close swayed to and fro like grieving women; Bishop John looked out at them and the bishop said, 'Even so.' He......

Books

I t is typical of what Norman White calls Gerard Manley Hopkins's 'shapeless' fortunes (he was unpublished for 20 years after his death in 1889) that, a hundred years on, two......