Flower in the crannied wall (Easter 1980)

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As soon as I found this poem in the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse in the early 1960s I wanted to set it, and imagined it as part of a song cycle, with orchestra, for Marilyn Richardson - something that did eventuate in 1994 (The Woven Light). The setting for Trinity College Choir was in response to Peter Dennison's suggestion that I should write a Trinity Sunday motet, as a thank-you for dinners I'd had after Thursday Evensongs at the College, when I was teaching at Melbourne University in the first term of 1979. My brother Harlin, who'd recently become Vicar of St. Andrew's Brighton, in Melbourne, preached the sermon on the occasion of the first performance, beginning: 'The doctrine of the Trinity is as obscure to me as my brother's music… '

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