Brother fare well, journeying to that Kingdom
Of faithful servants, and of work fulfilled
Brother fare well, journeying to that Kingdom
Of faithful servants, and of work fulfilled
A garden gracious, serene and spacious at Lambeth –
This is the dream, the vision that shall be its crown
Michael Thwaites wrote many poems of tribute and appreciation, both for people dear to him and for people he never knew, but whose lives struck a chord with his sense of the worth of an individual life’s contribution to a…
..apartness conquered by the power of love.
Carry us with you as you journey on.
His question ranged the echoing galaxies
of empty cold unanswering space, returning
home to our earth.
I praise a heroine of the Soviet Union,
pianist Yudina, through Moscow’s gloom
spelling a Mozart magical concerto.
Raged, raged against the death of others’ light,
Toiled, fought, till sick and blind received their sight.
..You they found fallen, holding a garden hose,
Where, year on year, you watered, weeded, nurtured things to grow.
Ninety years youthful, questing through generations,
historian of two hemispheres, quickener of other minds,
Catching the distinctive T’ang of old China
She chooses for herself the character of Punctual Autumn