Songs of Thankfulness and Praise

Christopher Wordsworth (1862)

“These things, these things were here and but the beholder / Wanting,” cries the poet Hopkins. Wonders are right in front of us, if we would open our eyes! But sometimes it’s not the beholder that’s wanting. It’s someone who will do what our Word of the Week yesterday suggests: someone who will show you what there is to see. For twelve years I atten…