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Volume 10 Number 2 Article 5 1983 Some 17th Century Worthies: A Short Verse Series Travis DuPriest Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore  Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation DuPriest, Travis (1983) "Some 17th Century Worthies: A Short Verse Series," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 10 : No. 2 , Article 5. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol10/iss2/5 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico • Postponed to: July 30 – August 2, 2021 This poetry is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol10/iss2/5 MYTHLORE 36: Summer 1983 Page 17S o m e  1 7 t h  C e n t u r y  W o r t h i e sA  Short V erse-Series Travis Du PriestHOLY ORDERSG e o r g e  H e r b e r tAll night.All night on coldest stone alone in a choirless nave, prostrate face to stone, bone to bone the broken heart beats its evensong: unworthy, I am, to enter beyond the veil you so graciously rent, yet which for poverty I cannot let.R i c h a r d  C r a s h a wAll night.All night kneeling low before crucifix and lights, transfixed beneath these signs of wonder, in awe the reverend chaplain, pride of Peterhouse, his sacred heart and contrite mind holding back a flood of tears, keeping watch of his Lord’s.1MYSTICST h o m a s  T r a h e r n eAll day.All day into evening, watching the trees, their shadows and leaves, eyes, fore-heads, limbs, in the still pool, reflecting another world, the world beyond and past the horizon below -  a world bright and illumined, peopled within.Henry VaughanAll day.All day to the crest of the hill through the garden walks, slow, up, round toward the center, where the fountain crowns the summit in cool and wet mist, where rest is possible, perceived and enjoyed.MATESR o b e r t  H e r r i c kAll morning.All morning before matins in honeysuckled-tongued, cream of Devon, piper in countrypied verse, singerto lovlies, ladies, and squires all through the day to evensong dandy-shire parson, flowered altar, hymning in rustic praise.S i r  J o h n  S u c k l i n gAll morning.All morning at least till elevenses, asleep from the night’s vigil of love and drink or conversation, thinking on will of God or man, ill at ease with no one, parson and lady, gent or quean, friend alike to seemly and mean.DEACON AND PRIESTNicholas FerrarAll night.All day. All night and day,in vigil of prayerand work, with charity.The psalms to read, hymns to sing, the office to say, fast to keep, watchto pray, all day and all night.J o h n  D o n n eAll night.All day. All night and day, sermon to search, to read; orations with a lover’s eloquence;with his congregation making love to God, all night till the rising sun.PLATONISTSH e n r y  M o r eAll evening.All evening gazing into the stars,Cambridge divine,Plato after Plato; his telescope of microscopic study in harmony of spheres.And souls.Harmony of spheres and souls.MYTHLORE 36: Summer 1983 Page 18K a t h e r i n e  P h i l i p sAll evening.All evening with her friendsin thought, in mind,her pen to heart,heart to page, eternizingappelationsand fame, her matchless salon of wives,England's Sappho, Orinda!CASUISTSJ e r e m y  T a y l o rAll dawn.All dawn into morning,the sun is watchfulrise, a bubblein highest skybubble of ethereal airlikened untothe lovely gift of lovebought with a bushel of thorns.R i c h a r d  Ba x t e rAll dawn.All dawn practicing his discipline of holiness, over writ and soul, writing the Sabbath in latitude, the presbyters way in grace and converse with his flock newly purified.PURITANSJ o h n  B u n y o nAll afternoon.All afternoon over books, prayerand holy script.No fast and easy way, no ready predetermined prize. Only eager and piercing eyes in images for other who have eyes to see.A n d r e w  M a r v e l lAll afternoon.All afternoon, the greenest rush of grass sprouts in his brain and hand on Bermuda’s seas and on land, moving gardens of metaphors, trimming the robust sails of state.Events of InterestInklings at Windycon XThe 10th Windycon, Chicago's annual regional Science Fiction con­vention, will have a special programming track dedicated to the work of the Inklings. October 7-9, 1983 at the Arlington Park Hilton Hotel, Chicago. Illinois. Registration is $15 at the door. Glen GoodKnight, the Mythopoeic Society's Founder, will be a special guest. Special exhibits, panels, films, and other events are planned. Write to Diana Pavlac, c/o Inklings at Windycon X, P.O. Box 432, Chicago, IL 60690.Darkover Grand Council VI and Mythopoeic Regional Conference November 25-27, 1983, Radisson Wilmington Hotel Wilmington, DelawareThe Mythopoeic Society’s first Mythopoeic Regional Conference is being held this year in conjunction with the 1983 Darkover Grand Council Meeting. The conference will take place over Thanksgiving weekend (November 25th through 27th) at the Radisson Wilmington Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware. The theme of the conference will be “Children's Fantasy”.GuestsCarol Kendall, author of the children’s fantasy novels The Gammage Cup and A Whisper of Glockert, is the Guest of Honor of the Mythopoeic Regional Conference. Her latest children’s book, TheFirelings, is the winner of the 1983 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Other guests of the Darkover Grand Council will include: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jo Clayton, Hal Clement, Katherine Kurtz, Diana Paxson, Hannah Shapiro, Nancy Springer, the Wollheims, and Paul Edwin Zimmer.Papers and PanelsDebra Doyle is planning an enticing selection of panel discussions and presentations for the conference. Any who would like to help or par­ticipate should contact her with their offers and ideas. Papers are also being actively solicited on the conference’s theme of CHILDREN'S FANTASY, or on other appropriate Mythopoeic topics. The final date for papers to be accepted is October 1st. Anyone wishing to contribute a paper should write to Debra as soon as possible to make arrangements: Debra Doyle, 529 Adams Drive #2-B, Newport News, VA 23601.MembershipMembership in this year’s Darkover Grand Council Meeting and Regional Mythopoeic Conference is $12.00 until the 12th of November, and $15.00 at the door. No memberships will be accepted between the cutoff date (November 15th) and the opening of the conference. All checks should be made payable to ARMIDA COUNCIL and mailed to the post office box address listed below. A membership ceiling of 500 has been set for the con, so we recommend that you reserve your membership early and enjoy the lower rates. P.O. Box 8113, Silver Spring, Maryland 20907.

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