Wedding hymn
Jul. 14th, 2010 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanelSome of you people recently got married. This made me remember a hymn called Come O thou traveller unknown by that great hymn-writer Charles Wesley. It's about Jacob's encounter with the angel in Genesis 32 (as recently lampooned by Married to the Sea). I sometimes wonder why it isn't more often used for wedding services:
Come, O thou Traveler unknown,
whom still I hold, but cannot see!
My company before is gone,
and I am left alone with thee.
With thee all night I mean to stay,
and wrestle till the break of day.
Today I did a ton of work. I feel satisfied with it all. Tomorrow, if I get anything at all done, it will be good enough to show you.
Last year, Rio said she wanted to study Latin. I'm quite capable of teaching elementary Latin, so I bought a second-hand copy of the Cambridge Latin Course (you know, Caecilius est pater). But then she said she'd changed her mind, and I let it drop. I'm now thinking I shouldn't have done so, and maybe I'll tell her she has to study at least the first unit (a couple of months of evenings) with me.
Tonight I have to write the blurb about myself for the back of the book. I'm still not sure what I'm going to write. I'm also a little nervous in the back of my mind that the peer reviewers are going to come back and say "You've written a load of bosh, away with your nonsense". I know this is unlikely, but it's easy to worry.
Come, O thou Traveler unknown,
whom still I hold, but cannot see!
My company before is gone,
and I am left alone with thee.
With thee all night I mean to stay,
and wrestle till the break of day.
Today I did a ton of work. I feel satisfied with it all. Tomorrow, if I get anything at all done, it will be good enough to show you.
Last year, Rio said she wanted to study Latin. I'm quite capable of teaching elementary Latin, so I bought a second-hand copy of the Cambridge Latin Course (you know, Caecilius est pater). But then she said she'd changed her mind, and I let it drop. I'm now thinking I shouldn't have done so, and maybe I'll tell her she has to study at least the first unit (a couple of months of evenings) with me.
Tonight I have to write the blurb about myself for the back of the book. I'm still not sure what I'm going to write. I'm also a little nervous in the back of my mind that the peer reviewers are going to come back and say "You've written a load of bosh, away with your nonsense". I know this is unlikely, but it's easy to worry.
