Friday, September 28, 2007

Something elegiac for Michaelmas



I am tired and I a stranger,
Lead thou me to the land of angels;
For me it is time to go home
To the court of Christ, to the peace of heaven.



--From a prayer to the guardian angel (Celtic Christian Spirituality: An Anthology of Medieval and Modern Sources, Oliver Davies and Fiona Bowie, editors)

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