Let us do it right, this time
Jan. 1st, 2005 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanEver since I first read it, my New Year's reading has been the poem by John M. Ford called "Restoration Day: Plainsong" from the last Liavek volume; it was later reprinted in his NESFA Press collection, From the End of the Twentieth Century. Here is its peroration.
"All over the redeemed City they are working joy-blind,
Shaping pots, baking bread, sewing fabrics and wounds,
Making with their hands the ultimate prayer
Of those who endure in the hope of the truth of the world:
Please, you gods and fellow mortals,
Let us do it right,
Let us do it right, this time."
Amen.
P.
"All over the redeemed City they are working joy-blind,
Shaping pots, baking bread, sewing fabrics and wounds,
Making with their hands the ultimate prayer
Of those who endure in the hope of the truth of the world:
Please, you gods and fellow mortals,
Let us do it right,
Let us do it right, this time."
Amen.
P.
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Date: 2005-01-01 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-01 09:44 pm (UTC)Amen, indeed.
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Date: 2005-01-01 10:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-01 11:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-01 11:35 pm (UTC)I like this. <----understatement of the year!
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Date: 2005-01-02 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-02 01:46 am (UTC)"All over the redeemed City they are working joy-blind.."
Joyblind making, and remaking, endure, hope, truth.
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Date: 2005-01-02 04:25 am (UTC)I love that phrase - it covers so much territory. (I hope to ghod this makes sense to somebody. English, she is a languish I have learned goodly.)
Maybe I may have mentioned this to you, but when I was in the Sign Language Program I tested out of having to take English 101 by using the mantra, "What Would Pamela Do?"
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Date: 2005-01-04 07:00 pm (UTC)may 2005 be joyous for you and yours.