[Magdalen] Prayers ANSWERED: missing, beloved dog is found!

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Boris Ord only wrote, to our knowledge, one work, a setting of the ancient
poem, "Adam lay ibounden".

It's a sublime, superb, wonderful work.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 2/19/16 10:12 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>
>> Well, if there was a leap, it was totally unconscious--I don't think I
>> ever heard of John McGee. Thanks for the info.
>>
>
>
> He didn't have a large body of published work, just the one poem he wrote
> down, which survived him.  It was printed in church publications by his
> father, then curate of St John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC  He
> died at the age of 19 in 1941 in England in a crash of his Spitfire, a
> pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.
>
> High Flight
>
>  "Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
> And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
> Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
> of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
> You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
> High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
> I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
> My eager craft through footless halls of air....
>
> Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
> I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
> Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
> And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
> The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
> - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>