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This resource relating to Psalm 1 provides a poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963) highlighting both the yearning for change and its' resistance and a poem by Philip Kolin (1922-1985) highlighting the cycle of life and death.
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Revised Common Lectionary
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Englewood Review
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*** Revised Common Lectionary ***
Lectionary Reading: Psalm 1
CLASSIC POEM:
The Sound of Trees
Robert Frost
I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That know it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.
*** This poem is in the public domain,
and may be read in a live-streamed worship service.
CONTEMPORARY POEM:
The Trees
Philip Larkin
SNIPPET:
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
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Psalm 1
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RCL Lectionary Week:
Year A Proper 25 (Ordinary Time 30)
Date:
Monday, October 23, 2023