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I sang Dear Lord and Father of Mankind many times at school 60 years ago, but I’m not sure that I’ve sung it since then. I loved both the words and the tune without thinking much about what the words meant. I’m not sure why the phrase “Till all our strivings cease” popped into my…
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At school between 1963 and 1970 I heard a reading from the Bible five days a week in school assembly. Now I rarely hear readings from the Bible, only at weddings and funerals, but I hear phrases from the Bible every day in ordinary speech. There are many Bibles, each of them a political as…
A Cairn of Poems 