{"id":251,"date":"2024-12-05T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:02:51","slug":"lux-perpetua-read-by-brigid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lux Perpetua&#8221; read by Brigid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author is<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Mackay_Brown\"> George Mackay Brown<\/a>, a dramatist and poet, &quot;widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.&quot; Mackay was a convert to Catholicism and had a tough life. He died in 1996. Brigid choose the artwork. I&#39;ve put the words below the poem. The very short video starts halfway through &#8211; Brigid first recited the words without the paintings. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZFf0eIbm1o?si=SkHii0921nLeCUCj&amp;start=34\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lux Perpetua.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A star for a cradle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Sun for plough and net<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> A fire for old stories<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> A candle for the dead<span style=\"text-align: left;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lux perpetua<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> By such glimmers we seek you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author is George Mackay Brown, a dramatist and poet, &quot;widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.&quot; Mackay was a convert to Catholicism and had a tough life. He died in 1996. Brigid choose the artwork. I&#39;ve put the words below the poem. The very short video starts halfway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}