{"id":191,"date":"2010-09-03T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2010-09-03T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T18:05:10","slug":"a-psalm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/a-psalm\/","title":{"rendered":"A Psalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Merton<\/p>\n<p>When psalms surprise me with their music<br \/>\nAnd antiphons turn to rum<br \/>\nThe Spirit sings: the bottom drops out of my soul.<\/p>\n<p>And from the center of my cellar, Love, louder than thunder<br \/>\nOpens a heaven of naked air.<\/p>\n<p>New eyes awaken.<br \/>\nI send Love&#8217;s name into the world with wings<br \/>\nAnd songs grow up around me like a jungle.<br \/>\nChoirs of all creatures sing the tunes<br \/>\nYour Spirit played in Eden.<br \/>\nZebras and antelopes and birds of paradise<br \/>\nShine on the face of the abyss<br \/>\nAnd I am drunk with the great wilderness<br \/>\nOf the sixth day in Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>But sound is never half so fair<br \/>\nAs when that music turns to air<br \/>\nAnd the universe dies of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Sun, moon and stars<br \/>\nFall from their heavenly towers.<br \/>\nJoys walk no longer down the blue world&#8217;s shore.<\/p>\n<p>Though fires loiter, lights still fly on the air of the gulf,<br \/>\nAll fear another wind, another thunder:<br \/>\nThen one more voice<br \/>\nSnuffs all their flares in one gust.<\/p>\n<p>And I go forth with no more wine and no more stars<br \/>\nAnd no more buds and no more Eden<br \/>\nAnd no more animals and no more sea:<\/p>\n<p>While God sings by himself in acres of night<br \/>\nAnd walls fall down, that guarded Paradise.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read at St. Lydia&#8217;s on August 29<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Thomas Merton When psalms surprise me with their music And antiphons turn to rum The Spirit sings: the bottom drops out of my soul. And from the center of my cellar, Love, louder than thunder Opens a heaven of naked air. New eyes awaken. I send Love&#8217;s name into the world with wings And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}