Description: A Musician's Journey
A sermon delivered to St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH at morning chapel on Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
The Journey of the Magi – T.S. Eliot (1927)
‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For the journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.’ And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces, And the silken girls bringing sherbet. Then the camel men cursing and grumbling And running away, and wanting their liquor and women, And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters, A