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This resource relating to Isaiah 5:1-7 provides a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) highlighting that decay is a gradual process and a poem by Robert Lowell (1917-1977) highlighting themes of mortality and the passage of time.
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading:
Isaiah 5:1-7
CLASSIC POEM:
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act
Emily Dickinson
Crumbling is not an instant’s Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation’s processes
Are organized Decays —
‘Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust —
Ruin is formal — Devil’s work
Consecutive and slow —
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping — is Crashe’s law —
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Ruins of Time
Robert Lowell
SNIPPET:
I saw the musty shingles of my house,
raw wood and fixed once, now a wash of moss
eroded by the ruin of age
furning all fair and green things into waste.
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Isaiah 5:1-7
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year C Proper 15 (Ordinary Time 20)
Date:
Monday, August 8, 2022