Category: verse

Effigies

This is very much a work in progress: a single verse and a tune that may well change over time. The verse will almost certainly not be expanded, but it will probably constitute just one section of a larger piece with quite a lot of instrumental music, though the verse may be left a capella.

For a rather different approach to a similar visualisation, see Philip Larkin’s An Arundel Tomb.

I’m not sure if it’s coincidental that while I was posting this LinkedIn suggested that I might be interested in a post as Obituaries Editor for a medical journal…

Effigies

Once more they lie together
Not an atom’s width apart
Where none disturb their slumber
For there is no beating heart

Backup:

Brookland Voices (revisited)

A work in progress. Now includes two vocal settings of verse from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ separated by a guitar solo. I think it needs more than this to raise the spirits a bit!

Backup:

The Gospel according to St. Lubricius

Bored with the infighting in the leadership contest for the Party of Whateverness? Desperate for the next General Erection? 

Here, just for you, is a Party Political Broadcast.

We’re coming, we’re coming for you,
But don’t pay us any mind:
Just watch the wall, my darlings,
While we take you from behind.

David Harley