Blue-eyed Snake
What in the world is a blue-eyed snake? A sign that things are surely changing, that what is old is sloughing off,..
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Silence Falls – Advent hymn
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When called for, or at the organist’s discretion, at the end of lines, or when otherwise the melody pauses, as though gathering..
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Hard rain
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At the font
poetry by Paul Hooker In memoriam, Rev. O. Floyd Hooker (1922–2014) We sat for ninety minutes in the room where he lay..