Advent Calendar by Rowan Williams | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:40:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Advent Calendar by Rowan Williams | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 “Advent Calendar” by Rowan Williams https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/06/advent-calendar-by-rowan-williams-a-breathtakingly-beautiful-poem/ https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/06/advent-calendar-by-rowan-williams-a-breathtakingly-beautiful-poem/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:14:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/06/advent-calendar-by-rowan-williams-a-breathtakingly-beautiful-poem/ Advent Calendar He will come like last leaf’s fall. One night when the November wind has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth wakes choking on the mould, the soft shroud’s folding. He will come like frost. One morning when the shrinking earth opens on mist, to find itself arrested in the net of […]

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