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Reburying of Richard III

Started by revanne, March 26, 2015, 04:30:44 PM

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revanne

I've just watched highlights of the service from Leicester Cathedral - amazingly moving and very powerful from both a historian's and a christian's perspective.

Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock fame) read the following poem written for the occasion by the Poet Laureate (whose task it is to write poems for royal and state occasions)

Richard

My bones, scripted in light, upon cold soil,
a human braille. My skull, scarred by a crown,
emptied of history. Describe my soul
as incense, votive, vanishing; you own
the same. Grant me the carving of my name.

These relics, bless. Imagine you re-tie
a broken string and on it thread a cross,
the symbol severed from me when I died.
The end of time – an unknown, unfelt loss –
unless the Resurrection of the Dead ...

or I once dreamed of this, your future breath
in prayer for me, lost long, forever found;
or sensed you from the backstage of my death,
as kings glimpse shadows on a battleground.

Carol Ann Duffy 2015
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
(Psalm 46 v1)

DesertRose

That's lovely.

IIRC, Mr. Cumberbatch has been cast to play Richard III in the next installment of "The Hollow Crown," so that may be why he was chosen to read the poem.  That, and he has a truly amazing voice.  :D
"If having a soul means being able to feel love, loyalty, and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

James Herriot (James Alfred "Alfie" Wight), when a human client asked him if animals have souls.  (I don't remember in which book the story originally appeared.)

Evie

"In necessariis unitas, in non-necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas."

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