Monday, March 10, 2025

1175. Psalm - Richard Wilbur

 Give thanks for all things

On the plucked lute, and likewise

The harp of ten strings.


Have the lifted horn

Greatly blare, and pronounce it

Good to have been born.


Lend the breath of life

To the stops of the sweet flute.

Or capering fife,


And tell the deep drum

To make at the right juncture,

Pandemonium.


Then, in grave relief,

Praise too our sorrows on the

Cello of shared grief. 

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