Evening Benediction.(Poem)

From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Murray, Oliver | Copyright information 
Evening Benediction 
 
   Brightness of beeswax candles sparkling through 
   our half-closed lids, eyes stung with incense smoke, 
   we new boys stumble through the Litany, 
   the monks' and seniors' voices bearing high 
   the pure sopranos of us younger ones, 
   who only half conceal our loneliness, 
   beginning this first year away from home. 
 
   A final Miserere and Oremus, 
   the choir has stopped, the organ groans and squeaks 
   and the prior, monks, and senior boys leave f...

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