FESTIVALE, TWO MOVEMENTS
(For Our Lady's Assumption)
I
When stars fall back in wonder, and the sun
shields his golden eye against such fire
as Mary is, returning to her Son.
What bourdon* stops of sea-roar underscore
the lightning's corno*, while the morning's chime
against the noon, the night, the evermore!
II
But there is pianissimo for heart,
and love is dulcet where the flowers stand
in open-petalled wonder at her tomb.
Call back the flutes and violins of spring!
and find them still too clangorous for love
singing its silence at her empty grave.
Mother M Francis PCC
Summon Spirit's Cry. San Francisao: Ignatius Press
(c) 1996. Mother M Francis PCC. All rights reserved.
Used with permission
From 'A Silence full of bells'
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* Bourdon: low accompaniment to a song
* Corno: an organ stop
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