We have some special people in our community who will be moving away soon. Wanting to give them a special St. Mary's sendoff, the rector asked if new texts could be written to a familiar tune so we have something we can pickup to sing when this happens (hopefully rare!).
You're up for a challenge, aren't you?
So sharpen your pencils, open up your rhyming dictionaries and put on your wordsmithing caps. Your mission is to write a verse about wishing good people Godspeed on their journey and with fond wishes that we'll meet them again some day. The tune to fit these words into is OLD 100th, which is also known as "Praise God from whom all blessings flow" or the Doxology. For those of you who know poetic meter, Old 100th is LM (long meter). Translation: four lines with 8 syllables each. Wikipedia has a nice & short article on hymn meters you can read up on, if you wish.
The deadline for this challenge is next Sunday, April 15, 2012, noon. Please email your entry(ies) to conie at saintmarysepiscopal dot org, hand it to me at church, or post it here if you wish. We'll premiere the finest verse the following week. (and if your holy muse is opposed to things like deadlines and other logistics, feel free to drop a note any time:).
Blessings on the final day of the Triduum!
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