{"id":44922,"date":"2017-11-16T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=44922"},"modified":"2017-11-16T22:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:46:02","slug":"a-day-in-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/11\/a-day-in-autumn.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Day in Autumn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44923\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/11\/800px-20130215_Kings_College_Chapel_Hi-res_01.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44923\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-44923\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/11\/800px-20130215_Kings_College_Chapel_Hi-res_01.jpg\" alt=\"King's College, Cambridge\" width=\"594\" height=\"442\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The famous chapel of King\u2019s College, Cambridge \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time \u2014 actually, it\u2019s probably past time \u2014 for me to post one of my very favorite poems \u2014 \u201cHerbsttag,\u201d or \u201cAutumn Day,\u201d by the German\/Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926):<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Herbsttag<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr gross.<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren,<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">und auf den Fluren lass die Winde los.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Befiehl den letzten Fr\u00fcchten voll zu sein;<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">gieb ihnen noch zwei s\u00fcdlichere Tage,<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">dr\u00e4nge sie zur Vollendung hin und jage<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">die letzte S\u00fcsse in den schweren Wein.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr.<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">Wer jetzt allein ist, wird es lange bleiben,<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">wird wachen, lesen, lange Briefe schreiben<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">und wird in den Alleen hin und her<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #003300;\">unruhig wandern, wenn die Bl\u00e4tter treiben.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a necessarily loose translation \u2014 it\u2019s poetry, after all \u2014 by Mary Kinzie:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Day in Autumn<\/span><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">After the summer\u2019s yield, Lord, it is time\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">to let your shadow lengthen on the sundials\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">and in the pastures let the rough winds fly.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">As for the final fruits, coax them to roundness.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Direct on them two days of warmer light\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">to hale them golden toward their term, and harry\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">the last few drops of sweetness through the wine.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Whoever\u2019s homeless now, will build no shelter;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">who lives alone will live indefinitely so,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">waking up to read a little, draft long letters,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">and, along the city\u2019s avenues,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\">fitfully wander, when the wild leaves loosen.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re just back from a concert by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingssingers.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The King\u2019s Singers<\/a>. \u00a0This year is their fiftieth anniversary. \u00a0Truth be told, when I saw them the last time I was somewhat disappointed, so I wasn\u2019t overly excited about seeing them again this evening. \u00a0But they\u2019re a younger group now and, perhaps partly for that reason, I thoroughly enjoyed them tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their program was widely varied, ranging from a Latin prayer of King Henry VI (who founded King\u2019s College, Cambridge, where they originated and from which they took their name, in 1441) through some exquisitely beautiful Renaissance compositions and a piece by Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns and a setting of several haiku poems by Toru Takemitsu to three songs by Lennon and McCartney and a text from Shakespeare\u2019s last play, <em>The Tempest<\/em>, set to music by John Rutter. \u00a0They received multiple\u00a0standing ovations and, among their encore pieces, performed a melody\u00a0by Billy Joel and a medley of LDS Primary songs arranged for them by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mormontabernaclechoir.org\/about\/choir\/bios\/-ryan-t-murphy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ryan Murphy<\/a>, Associate Music Director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s time \u2014 actually, it\u2019s probably past time \u2014 for me to post one of my very favorite poems \u2014 \u201cHerbsttag,\u201d or \u201cAutumn Day,\u201d by the German\/Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926): \u00a0 Herbsttag Herr: es ist Zeit. 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