dark speech upon the harp

I will incline mine ear to the parable, and shew my dark speech upon the harp
from Psalm 49

Friday, November 06, 2009

An Orthodox churchman

Funny stories, etc. from Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia :

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November, a sonnet by Hartley Coleridge.

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