{"id":737,"date":"2010-12-21T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T13:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadsfromemmaus.wordpress.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2010-12-21T08:41:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T13:41:31","slug":"for-the-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/2010\/12\/21\/for-the-solstice\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,<br \/>\nThe vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,<br \/>\nThe captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,<br \/>\nThe generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,<br \/>\nDistinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,<br \/>\nIndustrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark,<br \/>\nAnd dark the Sun and Moon, and the Almanach de Gotha<br \/>\nAnd the Stock Exchange Gazette, the Directory of Directors,<br \/>\nAnd cold the sense and lost the motive of action.<br \/>\nAnd we all go with them, into the silent funeral,<br \/>\nNobody&#8217;s funeral, for there is no one to bury.<br \/>\nI said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you<br \/>\nWhich shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theatre,<br \/>\nThe lights are extinguished, for the scene to be changed<br \/>\nWith a hollow rumble of wings, with a movement of darkness on darkness,<br \/>\nAnd we know that the hills and the trees, the distant panorama<br \/>\nAnd the bold imposing facade are all being rolled away\u2014<br \/>\nOr as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations<br \/>\nAnd the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence<br \/>\nAnd you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen<br \/>\nLeaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about;<br \/>\nOr when, under ether, the mind is conscious but conscious of nothing\u2014<br \/>\nI said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope<br \/>\nFor hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,<br \/>\nFor love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith<br \/>\nBut the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.<br \/>\nWait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:<br \/>\nSo the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.<br \/>\nWhisper of running streams, and winter lightning.<br \/>\nThe wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry,<br \/>\nThe laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy<br \/>\nNot lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony<br \/>\nOf death and birth.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&mdash;T. 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