So Shall the Singer Serve the Song

March 17, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Day.

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A St. Patrick’s Day poem about service:

So shall the singer serve the song;

The speaker, the sense; the self, the soul.

Praised be the part that serves the whole,

And the lover, the love that is loyal and long!

To serve is a gift that not all enjoy,

Recounting with relish the lust one might lose,

Imagining pleasures one would not refuse,

Craving a grace that would one’s grace destroy,

Knowing a truth one is too vain to choose.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: St. Patrick’s Day

3/11: Sing in Celebration of Your Race

3/12: Sing Me a Love Song for My Irish Boy

3/13: Sinners All, We Ask for Your Forgiveness

3/14: St. Patrick Rid the Emerald Isle of Snakes

3/15: St. Patrick’s Day Commemorates the Turning

3/16: So How Long Should England Pay for What It Did

3/17: So Shall the Singer Serve the Song