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Be An Example To Believers (1 Tm 4, 12) |
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The score sets the timing, The heart-beat, the breathing, Of notes in their flow, Some fast and some slow, Now falling, now climbing, Subsiding or seething, As fixed or erratic The melody (twiner Of notes in a scale) Goes forging a trail By steps now chromatic, Now major, now minor, While--voices all weaving In choral invention-- The harmony gains Through dissonant strains To climax, relieving The build-up of tension. The score in its beauty Is read and restated By each who performs, Translating its norms, So freedom and duty Are perfectly mated. Tight pattern, yet ample For all its receivers, A score they may play, Each one in his way . . . Be thus an example To all the believers. |
by Stephen Wentworth Arndt, Ph.D.
[ Carry Each Other's Burdens | Rejoice in Hope | Rejoice With Those Who Rejoice | Owe No Debt To Anyone | Accept Each Other | If One Member Suffers | Earthen Vessels | Forgive As The Lord Has Forgiven You | Be An Example To Believers | Keep Yourself Pure ]
[ Supper | Gethsemane | Betrayal | Denial | Ironies | Wounds | Surrender | Tomb | Doubt | Ascension | Christ ]
This poem is © Copyright 2000 by Stephen Wentworth Arndt, Ph.D.
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