I've begun adding more to the material in my research notes on linear temporal properties. We've now covered the "top diamond" described in my note about my work with Kai Phan. Hope to add more this week!
Deus in loco sancto suo: Deus, qui inhabitáre facit unánimes in domo: ipse dabit virtútem et fortitúdinem plebi suæ.
I was once again the director of our choir at All Saints Ainslie, where we sang two anthems to a packed house: there were fourteen confirmees, and the bishop (and primate of Australia) came to
induct them into the church. Our choir sang a favourite of mine, Lloyd's View Me, Lord, a lovely poem from Thomas Campion:
View me, Lord, a work of thine.
Shall I then lie drown'd in night?
Might thy grace in me but shine,
I should seem made all of light.
Cleanse me, Lord, that I may kneel
At thine altar, pure and white.
They that once thy mercies feel
gaze no more on Earth's delight.
Worldly joys, like shadows, fade
When the heav'nly light appears;
But the cov'nants thou hast made,
Endless, know not days nor years.
In thy word, Lord, is my trust;
To thy mercies fast I fly.
Though I am but clay and dust,
Yet thy grace can lift me high.
As well as Tallis' If ye love me, which, at least in my edition, was in the exact same key.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
And I will pray the Father,
And He shall give you another comforter:
That He may bide with you forever, e'en the Spirit of Truth.
I also directed us for evensong, where we sang a mostly plainchant evensong, along with Stainer's Hail, Gladdening Light as usual, plus Vaughan Williams' The Call as an anthem (with solo verse sung by yours truly), from his settings
of George Herbert poems, the Five Mystical Songs.
