Quote of the Day (R.S. Thomas, on the ‘Sombre’ Cross)

“Always the same hills

Crown the horizon,

Remote witnesses

Of the still scene

And in the foreground

The tall Cross,

Sombre, untenanted,

Aches for the Body

That is back in the cradle

of a maid’s arms.”-- R.S. Thomas, Pieta (1966)

(The image accompanying this post is Crucifixion, by German 16th-century painter Peter Gertner.)