Peter Westcott

I have been looking at your Lent Blog and see that "secular" songs are accepted. One that I find quite thought making was played by Alan Titchmarsh on his programme last Sunday. It is Bryn Terfel's recording of the Sunset Poem, otherwise Rev. Eli Jenkins Prayer from Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood.

I find the first two verses in particular often in my thoughts.


Every morning when I wake,
Dear Lord a little prayer I make,
O please to keep Thy loving eye
On all poor creatures born to die.

And every evening at sun-down
I ask a blessing on the town,
For whether we last the night or no
I'm sure is always touch-and-go.

We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
And Thou, I know, wilt be the first
To see our best side, not our worst.

O let us see another day!
Bless us all this night, I pray,
And to the sun we all will bow
And say, good-bye - but just for now!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsPiNkj6DA