"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

R.E. Slater - A Prayer (a poem)


Meet me along the primrose'd paths...


A Prayer
by R.E. Slater
Meet me along the primrose'd paths
And there abide till days long passed
Be Thou my heart and will's own muse
Forgiven amongst the morning dews.

 Stay'd by prayer tho' dark night enclose
Entwine'd by grace we together arose
O'er misty lands of earthy delights
Or outer isles of nethering dawns.

 Where ’ere is sung Thy abiding love
Bowed grave upon thorny hillock brakes -
“O Lord, Thou art our need and thrall”
“In giving Thyself hast Thou given all.”

 May we do no less each Paschal day
Giving all to Thee our help and stay.
- R.E. Slater
March 28, 2012

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