{"id":768,"date":"2011-02-03T11:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roadsfromemmaus.org\/?p=768"},"modified":"2011-02-03T11:47:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:47:45","slug":"a-song-for-simeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/2011\/02\/03\/a-song-for-simeon\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song for Simeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_769\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-769\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2011\/02\/armenian-meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2011\/02\/armenian-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Armenian-Meeting\" width=\"384\" height=\"546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2011\/02\/armenian-meeting.jpg 384w, https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2011\/02\/armenian-meeting-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Armenian icon of the Meeting of Christ in the Temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul><b>A Song for Simeon<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and<br \/>\nThe winter sun creeps by the snow hills;<br \/>\nThe stubborn season has made stand.<br \/>\nMy life is light, waiting for the death wind,<br \/>\nLike a feather on the back of my hand.<br \/>\nDust in sunlight and memory in corners<br \/>\nWait for the wind that chills towards the dead land.<\/p>\n<p>Grant us thy peace.<br \/>\nI have walked many years in this city,<br \/>\nKept faith and fast, provided for the poor,<br \/>\nHave taken and given honour and ease.<br \/>\nThere went never any rejected from my door.<br \/>\nWho shall remember my house, where shall live my children\u2019s children<br \/>\nWhen the time of sorrow is come ?<br \/>\nThey will take to the goat\u2019s path, and the fox\u2019s home,<br \/>\nFleeing from the foreign faces and the foreign swords.<\/p>\n<p>Before the time of cords and scourges and lamentation<br \/>\nGrant us thy peace.<br \/>\nBefore the stations of the mountain of desolation,<br \/>\nBefore the certain hour of maternal sorrow,<br \/>\nNow at this birth season of decease,<br \/>\nLet the Infant, the still unspeaking and unspoken Word,<br \/>\nGrant Israel\u2019s consolation<br \/>\nTo one who has eighty years and no to-morrow.<\/p>\n<p>According to thy word,<br \/>\nThey shall praise Thee and suffer in every generation<br \/>\nWith glory and derision,<br \/>\nLight upon light, mounting the saints\u2019 stair.<br \/>\nNot for me the martyrdom, the ecstasy of thought and prayer,<br \/>\nNot for me the ultimate vision.<br \/>\nGrant me thy peace.<br \/>\n(And a sword shall pierce thy heart,<br \/>\nThine also).<br \/>\nI am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,<br \/>\nI am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.<br \/>\nLet thy servant depart,<br \/>\nHaving seen thy salvation.<\/p>\n<p><i>T.S. Eliot<\/i><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Song for Simeon Lord, the Roman hyacinths are blooming in bowls and The winter sun creeps by the snow hills; The stubborn season has made stand. My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. Dust in sunlight and memory in corners Wait for the wind that chills towards the dead land. 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