First Things RSS Feed - Richard Wilbur https://www.firstthings.com/author/richard-wilbur en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:52 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/richard-wilbur 60 Psalm https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/03/psalm https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/03/psalm Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Give thanks for all things
On the plucked lute, and likewise
The harp of ten strings.

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]]> Psalm https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/05/psalm https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/05/psalm Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Give thanks for all things
On the plucked lute, and likewise
The harp of ten strings.
Have the lifted horn
Greatly blare, and pronounce it
Good to have been born.
Lend the breath of life
To the stops of the sweet flute
Or capering fife,
And tell the deep drum
To make, at the right juncture,
Pandemonium.
Then, in grave relief,
Praise too our sorrows on the
Cello of shared grief.

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