{"id":18273,"date":"2022-07-18T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learnetd.com\/teachers\/?page_id=18273"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:37:50","slug":"epilogue-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/epilogue-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Siegfried Sassoon 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18273\" class=\"elementor elementor-18273\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ff8acc elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"4ff8acc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6476f23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6476f23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/dramatisation\/\"><i>Siegfried Sassoon part 2<\/i><\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ea3e59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"7ea3e59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2a4a8dd animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"2a4a8dd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-42fe668\" data-id=\"42fe668\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0a4ee5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d0a4ee5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6415630\" data-id=\"6415630\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba7af3a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ba7af3a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><em>A Poet's Pilgrimage<\/em><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-deab577 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"deab577\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18273-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoon4.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoon4.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoon4.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoon4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34cd08b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34cd08b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\">\n<p class=\"western\">Presented by Dame Felicitas Corrigan<br>\nCompiled by Shaun MacLoughlin<br>\nwith Hugh Burden as Siegfried Sassoon<br>\nand Hugh Dickson as the Reader<\/p><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-365101f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"365101f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\">\n<p class=\"western\">SASSOON: Then came those three years of what now seems to have been dark night..<\/p><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b7ec99 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1b7ec99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\">\n<p class=\"western\">DAME FELICITAS: The independent, questioning self he had set such store by all his life had to acknowledge its nothingness before God. It had to go further still and meet God&#8217;s demands and conditions. At seventy years of age the proud spirit of Siegfried Sassoon was being invited to bow in obedience to an outward and inflexible authority.\n<\/p><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b10c0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8b10c0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\">\n<p class=\"western\">(PLAINCHANT FROM STANBROOK ABBEY)<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4a3f62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c4a3f62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\">\n<p class=\"western\">DAME FELICITAS: On the natural plain the instrument of this vital change was a nun, Mother Margaret Mary, Superior of the Convent of the Assumption, Kensington Square, London. After the publication of\u00a0<em>Sequences<\/em>\u00a0at the end of 1956, she wrote to the author and began a correspondence, which lit a candle in his inner darkness.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b4d05b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b4d05b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\">\n<p class=\"western\">(BRING UP PLAINCHANT AGAIN)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-d1a7357 animated-fast elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"d1a7357\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b9588b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3b9588b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Siegfried-Sassoon-1886-1967-A-qipq4pyub7atbpo2a97oxznmd4uvp6l22y4ugw5hj4.jpeg\" title=\"Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967 A\" alt=\"Siegfried Sassoon 1886-1967 A\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Siegfried Sassoon: \"I look rather awaitful of whatever may be coming to me\"<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-798cbc6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"798cbc6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassooncorrigan-e1657919724103.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-17657\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Dame Felicitas <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-4d6e879 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4d6e879\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa97b48\" data-id=\"aa97b48\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c20574 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9c20574\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\">No comfort came until I looked for light<br>\nBeyond the darkened thickets of my brain.<br>\nWith nothingness I strove. And inward sight<br>\nNo omen but oblivion could obtain.<br><br>\n\nHe spoke.  He held my spirit in His hand.<br>\nThrough prayer my password from the gloom was given.<br>\nThis Eastertide, absolved in strength I stand.<br>\nFeet firm upon the ground.  My heart in heaven.\n\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-2779751 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2779751\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e20e00b\" data-id=\"e20e00b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-77261d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"77261d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICITAS: On the 14th August 1957 at Downside Abbey, he was received into the Catholic Church.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de42310 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"de42310\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\">\n<p class=\"western\">(MONKS CHANTING AT DOWNSIDE)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e57b435 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e57b435\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: To FC 21st January 1960. The sound of psalmody at Downside is echoing on in my head, as there was a wireless talk\u00a0The day of a novice\u00a0just now, which ended with a minute of recorded chanting &#8211; very consoling to the hibernating exile &#8211; it bore me back to those many Vespers I had heard on summer days with the evening sun coming in at St. Lawrence&#8217;s Chapel. Nowhere I have I known more happy peace than in that glorious church. It seems extraordinary now, the sense of rejuvenation I experienced so intensely thar summer. I had been telling myself that I had ceased to be capable of strong emotional aliveness and supposed that that was why my poetry had dried up. And then, for most of that year, in love with the supernatural, so to speak &#8211; a kind of spiritual childhood and adolescence &#8211; and have been slowly growing up ever since. I like to think that such a transformation, at nearly 71, is evidence of the agelessness of the human spirit.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e1c8551 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e1c8551\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\">(FADE MONKS CHANTING) <\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83b1119 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"83b1119\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: I wrote\u00a0<em>Lenten Illuminations<\/em>\u00a0in three days, quite easily and unexpectedly, after having written only two short pieces in the previous four years &#8211; and have been wondering ever since how I did it. It epitomizes the seven months of &#8216;all things made new&#8217; before I was received.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d204a08 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d204a08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\">I<br>\nNot properly Catholic, some might say, to like it best<br>\nWhen no one&#8217;s in the cool white church that few frequent<br>\nThese sober-skied vocational afternoons in Lent.<br>\nThere&#8217;s sanctity in stillness, let it be confessed,<br>\nFor one addicted much to meditationment &#8211;<br><br>\n\n\n\nThis afternoon it seemed unconvert self came in,<br>\nPuzzled to perceive one at the altar rails, unminding;<br>\nCould this be he &#8211; hereafter offered him to win,<br>\nAnd faith revealed wheretoward he pilgrim&#8217;d without\nfinding?<br><br>\n\nII<br>\nHow came it (ask your Angel &#8211; ask that vigilant voice)<br>\nThat you this comfort found &#8211; that thus it grew to be &#8211;<br>\n\nThis close, child-minded calm? &#8230;\nLook those five candles\nlit<br>\nFor five who have prayed your peace. (Candles were ever\nyour choice<br>\nTo tranquilize the mind, since boyhood.) They are what\nthey are.<br>\nTwo pennies for each. But Candlemas tells purity.<br>\nAnd we are told their innocent radiance will remit<br>\nOur errors. Although the lights of everlastingness, as someone\nsaid,<br>\nCan seem, for us poor souls, to dream so faint and far,<br>\nWhen at our broken orisons we kneel, unblessed, unbenifited.<br><br>\n\nWhile you were in your purgatorial time, you used to say<br>\nThat though Creation&#8217;s God remained so lost, such aeons\naway,<br>\nSomehow He would reveal Himself to you &#8211; some day!<br>\nFor Him, the Living God, your soul and flesh could only cry\naloud.<br>\nIn watches of the night, when world event with devildom\nwent dark,<br>\nYou implored illumination. But never being bowed<br>\nObedient &#8211; never conceived an aureoled instance, an assuring\nspark.<br><br>\nOutcast and unprotected contours of the soul,<br>\nWhy in those hallowed minsters could they find no home,<br>\nWhen nothing appeared more unpredictable than this &#8211; your\nwhole<br>\nInfluence, relief, resultancy received from Rome?<br>\nLook. Robed in white and blue, earth&#8217;s best loved Lady\nstands;<br>\nMother Immaculate; name that shines to intercede.<br>\nBorn on her birthday feast, until last year your hands<br>\nKindled no candle, paid her heavenliness no heed.<br>\nIs it not well, that now you call yourself her child &#8211;<br>\nYou and this rosary, at which &#8211; twelve months ago, you<br>\nmight have shrugged and smiled?<br><br>\n\nThis day twelve months ago &#8211; it was Ash Wednesday &#8211; one<br>\nMid-day between us two toward urgent hope fulfilled<br>\nStrove with submission. Arduous &#8211; forbidding &#8211; then to meet<br>\nInflexible Authority. While the work was willed,<br>\nThe riven response from others to the task undone<br>\nDaunted a mind confused with ferment, incomplete:<br>\nThere seemed so much renunciant consequence involved,<br>\nWhen independent questioning self should yield, indubitant\nand absolved.<br><br>\n\nIII<br>\nThis, then, brought our new making. Much emotional stress &#8211;<br>\nCall it conversion: but the word can&#8217;t cover such good.<br>\nIt was like being in love with ambient blessedness &#8211;<br>\nIn love with life transformed &#8211; life breathed afresh, though\nyet half understood.<br>\nThere had been many byways for the frustrate brain,<br>\nAll leading to illusions lost and shrines forsaken .\n..<br>\nOne road before us now &#8211; one guidance for our gain\n&#8211;<br>\nOne morning light &#8211; whatever the world&#8217;s weather &#8211; wherein\nwide-eyed to waken.<br><br>\n\nIV<br>\nThis is the time of year, when even for the old,<br>\nYoungness comes knocking on the heart with undefined<br>\nAches and announcements &#8211; blurred felicities foretold,<br>\nAnd (obvious utterance) wearying winter left behind.<br><br>\n\nI never felt it more than now, when out beyond these\nsafening walls<br>\nSculptured with Stations of the Cross, spring-confident,\nunburdened, bold,<br>\nThe first March blackbird overheard to forward vision flutes\nand calls.<br><br>\n\nYou could have said this simple thing, old self, in any\nprevious year.<br>\nBut not to that one ritual flame &#8211; to that all-answering Heart\nabidant here.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0361f9d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0361f9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: To FC 29th March 1960. &#8216;Outcast and unprotected contours of the soul&#8217; is not\u00a0me, but beloved Belloc. It must have been almost three years ago, when I was in the vortex of struggling towards submission, that I came across the following passage:<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d6ef07 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0d6ef07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: orange;\"> BELLOC: The Faith, the Catholic Church, is discovered, is recognized, triumphantly enters reality like a landfall at sea which first was thought a cloud. The metaphor is not that men fall in love with it: the metaphor is that they discover home. It is the very mould of the mind, the matrix to which corresponds in every outline the outcast and unprotected contours of the soul.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a461be elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0a461be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: All that afternoon my mind had been pervaded by a sort of ghostly climatic disturbance &#8211; cloud conflictings and murmurous intimations of spiritual debate (if you know what I mean &#8211; I do). Belloc&#8217;s magnificent words settled it once and for all. &#8216;That&#8217;s done it,&#8217; I said. My whole being was liberated.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-55834b6 animated-fast elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"55834b6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af059e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"af059e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoondownside.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18309\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoondownside.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoondownside-248x300.jpeg 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Downside Abbey<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5aaa2da elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"5aaa2da\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d488601 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d488601\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonchapel.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18314\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonchapel.jpg 220w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonchapel-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Downside Abbey Chapel<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e91a44 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"3e91a44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-554fae0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"554fae0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassdown-1024x619.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18254\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassdown-1024x619.png 1024w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassdown-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassdown-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassdown-1536x928.png 1536w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassdown.png 1653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Downside Abbey Chapel<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-828e945 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"828e945\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f2a030 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8f2a030\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaltar-683x1024.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18348\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaltar-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaltar-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaltar-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaltar-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaltar.jpeg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82ba5e9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"82ba5e9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonourlady-724x1024.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-19424\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonourlady-724x1024.jpeg 724w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonourlady-212x300.jpeg 212w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonourlady-768x1086.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonourlady-1086x1536.jpeg 1086w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonourlady-1448x2048.jpeg 1448w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonourlady-scaled.jpeg 1810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cb92d92 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"cb92d92\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6da2750 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6da2750\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoongreco.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18365\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">The Virgin Mary by El Greco<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-661ba3c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"661ba3c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7263777 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7263777\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassbelloc.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18388\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Hilaire Belloc<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-67cb387 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"67cb387\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0f73c93\" data-id=\"0f73c93\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c848618 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c848618\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICTAS: His last poems leave no doubt that they were, as he said, his &#8216;living heart.&#8217; No superficial reading or consideration can plumb their depth. They are the words of a sage, the expression of truths, that form the rock foundation of human life lived in its wholeness, which is all that holiness means.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-958abba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"958abba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\">Wisdom, remote from reason, mysteried Word<br>\nShrined for reverberant precincts of the soul,<br>\nAbove blind-led belief be held and heard,<br>\nNeed of the nescient, radiate and enrol.<br><br>\n\nIndwelt redemption, doubted and denied,<br>\nConcord no sanctity could comprehend,<br>\nMercy immeasurable and multiplied,<br>\nWorld watcher, armed and influent to befriend.<br>\nHope of humility, resistless Rood,<br>\nBeyond our bodements bring beatitude.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b37483f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b37483f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: The wonder is that one dares to say anything, contemplating that infinite silence and stillnes from one&#8217;s human, near nothing. &#8216;Be still and know that I am God,&#8217; are my most often repeated words from Scripture.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24bd5ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"24bd5ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\"><em>Sight Sufficient<\/em><br><br>\n\n\n\nGod, on the gloom divine wheretoward I pray,<br>\nYou send no sign, no doubt-redeeming ray;<br>\nNo manifest, for this unwisdom&#8217;d one,<br>\nThe faith that blest his pilgrim path begun.<br><br>\n\nO purpose of my prayer, breath of my being,<br>\nYour inward light I share through sightless seeing:<br>\nYour love can but be told beyond blind thought<br>\nThat knows your peace enfold believement brought.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-cb6ae64 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cb6ae64\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4164ded animated-fast elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"4164ded\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7246655 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7246655\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonmotherchurch.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18414\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonmotherchurch.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonmotherchurch-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Sassoon: \"resting in Mother Church, as it were\"<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-356c929 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"356c929\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-96bc9bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"96bc9bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonthompson.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536 wp-image-18431\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Francis Thompson<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd3f9d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"fd3f9d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonignatius.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536 wp-image-18424\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Saint Ignatius Loyola<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4aa4a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a4aa4a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonmacbeth.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1536x1536 size-1536x1536 wp-image-18442\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Tim Uren as Macbeth<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-d7248d8\" data-id=\"d7248d8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00e297f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"00e297f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\">\n<p class=\"western\">SASSOON: To FC 18th February 1960. Last night, when beginning prayer at 1 a.m., I had a sense of being watched. There seemed to be presences around me. Fanciful of course; but I&#8217;ve never had it before in my three years of devotions. I have taught myself to be very much on guard against prayerful nonsense. But such things always impress me by being quite unexpected and unsought.<br><br>\n\n\nThe first stage was to become unaware of oneself as a figure in the act of prayer. At first I was always conscious of my attitudinizing, a sort of Sir Galahad, emotionally enjoyable. Then my only awareness of my body is bronchial breathing and skin ticklings. I am blessedly free from mental distractions.<br><br>\nSimplicity and directness count for most, don&#8217;t they? The sheer act of faith and self-surrender.\u00a0<em>Sight Sufficient<\/em>\u00a0expressed that turning point, when I realized a visualizations of angels and Our Lady were just childish encouragements. They were persistent in 1957, but gradually stopped and have ceased altogether in the past eighteen months. The night before I began\u00a0Lenten Illuminations, I saw an almost life-sized, short-haired seraph with arms out-stretched, quite clear and lovelier than anything I could have pictured. What is your attitude to such experiences? &#8216;nice little treats,&#8217; I suppose, &#8216;too physical to be graces.&#8217;\n\nI hadn&#8217;t smelt a pipe, since I sat beside my brother Harry at home, the night before I entered Stanbrook.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb36103 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fb36103\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICITAS: What is my attitude? If it isn&#8217;t perilous to tease you, can you recall how Francis Thompson lumps together saint, poet and murderer.<br><br>\n\n\n\nHe shows that before their sudden burst of achievement, they suffer birth pangs, which leave their bodies devitalized and spent. It is precisely then when nerves are worn thin, and sensitivity at its highest, when the experience &#8211; well what shall i call them? &#8211; supernatural visions or hallucinations?\n<br><br>\nSo Ignatius Loyola steps out victorious from the cave of Manresa and promptly sees a green serpent, coiled round a wayside cross. Francis Thompson himself emerges from a period of darkness into light, strolls down the garden and meets a minute, white stolled child, cupped in an arum lily. Macbeth in his castle court clutches wildly at an air-drawn dagger.\n<br><br>\nAnd you, in your solitude at Heytesbury, incubate a poem, in which you are to ask your angel, ask that vigilant voice. And hey presto the seraph stands before you and illuminates your midnight prayer. Well what about it? Being a nun and therefore a rationalist and sceptic, I want to know what you mean by a life-sized seraph with arms. Aren&#8217;t you simply adopting the iconography of Christian Art? Can a mighty spirit be so circumscribed? Has an angel got arms? Mind you, I don&#8217;t for a moment doubt the existence of serpents or angels or daggers, but had we better compromise by accepting Belloc&#8217;s couplet:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-560d8a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"560d8a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\">O let us never, never doubt<br>\nWhat nobody is sure about.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36b2196 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36b2196\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: To FC Trinity Sunday. Last night I sat up in bed for three hours, feeling compelled to write a poem; but until the third hour quite unable to know what to say. What I muddled out then in eight lines, came through quite clear in six this morning, and appears to be fairly all right, theologically anyhow; and is recognisably my voice. &#8216;Resolv\u00e8d requiem&#8217; might be queried, but it is a reference to Saint Augustine&#8217;s &#8216;until we rest in Him.&#8217;<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40b9c62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"40b9c62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\"><em>A Prayer at Pentecost<\/em> 1960<br><br>\n\nMaster Musician, Life, I have overheard you,<br>\nLabouring in litanies of heart to word you.<br>\nBe noteless now.  Our duologue is done.<br><br>\n\nSpirit, who speak&#8217;st by silences, remake me;<br>\nTo light of unresistant faith, awake me,<br>\nThat with resolv\u00e8d requiem I be one.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54f5002 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54f5002\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: To Dame Felicitas Corrigan, 5th July 1960. If life were a Master Musician only! More and more I am afflicted by the noisiness of life; and wonder how most people endure and apparently enjoy it; and how few of them are aware at all of the supernatural silences which surround their being.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f517ec5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f517ec5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICITAS: When <em>The\u00a0Path to Peace<\/em>\u00a0was published in November 1960, Sassoon wrote to the printer, Dame Hildelith Cumming:<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-6ca56cf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6ca56cf\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-8999384\" data-id=\"8999384\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-335042a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"335042a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: The sun is pouring in at my tall windows and &#8216;the book&#8217; is standing upright against your framed Magnificat.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88ac1d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"88ac1d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\"> (BRING UP STANBROOK ABBEY NUNS CHANTING)<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eada935 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eada935\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: Its arrival concluding three weeks of solitude, when no visitor came to my &#8216;angel greeted door Or threshold of wing-winnowed threshing floor&#8217; (as D. G. Rosetti remarked). You must surely know what this book means to me, and what a solace and delight to my uneventful existence. May it give you, who so beautifully made it, as much happiness as it brings to me.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-edcdef4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"edcdef4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\"> (STAY WITH AND THEN FADE NUNS CHANTING)<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0162eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0162eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICITAS: When Dame Bernadette Plater, a nun of Stanbrook Abbey, died in November 1960, he sent me his poem <em>Awaitment<\/em><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-46dc751 animated-fast elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"46dc751\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f74b971 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f74b971\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoondante.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18472\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoondante.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoondante-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Sir Galahad armed by an Angel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-ab51415 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ab51415\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-db25bbf animated-fast elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"db25bbf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ffa5c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ffa5c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\">Eternal, to this momentary thing &#8211;<br>\nThis mind &#8211; Thy sanctuary of stillness bring.<br>\nWithin that unredeemed aliveness, live:<br>\nAnd through Thy sorrowless sacrament forgive.<br>\n   Let me be lost; and lose myself in Thee.<br>\n   Let me be found; and find my soul set free.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eee208e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"eee208e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: Father Hubert, to whom I sent an\u00a0<em>Awaitment<\/em>, writes:<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b3284d6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b3284d6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6bf7afb\" data-id=\"6bf7afb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-46b0353 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"46b0353\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-34c33a3\" data-id=\"34c33a3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55713b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55713b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: brown;\"> DOM HUBERT VAN ZELLER: I&#8217;ve read your lovely verse, over and over again. It proposes the whole problem; and that&#8217;s why I like the title. We cannot bring about anything of ourselves. It has to be what God does, and it&#8217;s so hellish, when He doesn&#8217;t and when one has to wait.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec3f33e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ec3f33e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: Encouragement\u00a0Premier con vintage\u00a0Chateau bottled. I love that strange man.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd7b8e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd7b8e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: brown;\"> DOM HUBERT: To FC 12th March 1972. When he started coming regularly to Downside on Tuesday afternoons to bat in the nets, he invariably looked in on me. Having puffed and blown on the cricket field, he puffed and blew sitting crosslegged on the floor with his thermos flask and paper bag of cake and biscuit crumbs, while I worked and listened.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47f738f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"47f738f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\"> (SOUND OF CHIPPING)<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a8dd44a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a8dd44a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: Why do you sculptor chaps wear knitted skullcaps, when you work? Hm?<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6b65d23\" data-id=\"6b65d23\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c223c26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c223c26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SassoonzellersiegfriedA-791x1024.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18534\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SassoonzellersiegfriedA-791x1024.jpeg 791w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SassoonzellersiegfriedA-232x300.jpeg 232w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SassoonzellersiegfriedA-768x994.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SassoonzellersiegfriedA-1186x1536.jpeg 1186w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SassoonzellersiegfriedA-1582x2048.jpeg 1582w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SassoonzellersiegfriedA-scaled.jpeg 1977w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Drawing by Dom Hubert Van Zeller<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6399152 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6399152\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: brown;\"> DOM HUBERT: To keep the stonedust out of our hair.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e34d90 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6e34d90\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: purple;\"> (DOM HUBERT CHUCKLES)<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cc5174a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cc5174a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\">SASSOON: I&#8217;d have thought in your case it wasn&#8217;t necessary.  Forgive me, forgive me. However well one knows a chap it is always poor taste to be personal. What I have never understood about twentieth century sculpture is why the figures always look so stiff.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68a6519 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68a6519\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: brown;\"> DOM HUBERT: More stiff than Egyptian or Romanesque?<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04709e4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"04709e4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\">SASSOON: Well they at least had their limbs in the right places and didn&#8217;t look as if they had cramp. Greek and Roman sculpture, and neo-classical at its best, didn&#8217;t make arms and legs stick out at odd angles. (PUFFS AT HIS PIPE) But of course I don&#8217;t understand these things.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b649dfc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b649dfc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: brown;\"> DOM HUBERT: Perhaps that&#8217;s partly today, because we want to escape from the obvious. Originality has become an obsession. And partly &#8211; but this is where I tend to lecture or become technical &#8230;<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-841a511 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"841a511\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: Do go on. I&#8217;m listening &#8211; for once.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-d8edd69 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d8edd69\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-a9d59e3\" data-id=\"a9d59e3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2d6b78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2d6b78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: brown;\"> DOM HUBERT: And partly on account of the modern respect for the material. In woodcarving we let ourselves be guided by the grain and the knots; in stone by variations of hardness; in alabaster by variations of colour. The material dictates.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99f4868 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"99f4868\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: I should have thought that it ought to be the other way about and that the human being should be master of what he&#8217;s handling. I know that in writing poetry I always have the last word. But then I know nothing about sculpture.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cae038 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0cae038\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: brown;\"> DOM HUBERT: His shy, jerky, diffident manner, characteristic expressions, movements as well as words and facial contortions, suggested to me in equal parts a longing to get away and a longing to stop on and talk. After a bit of course the nervousness dropped away and the essential serenity was given a chance.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-c8df697\" data-id=\"c8df697\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68d691a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"68d691a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaust1-1024x794.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-18584\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaust1-1024x794.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaust1-300x233.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaust1-768x596.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaust1-1536x1192.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/sassoonaust1-2048x1589.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Siegrfried driving Dom Hubert in his Austin 7<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2432f9d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2432f9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICITAS: To a friend July 1961. SS can look ridiculously young for 75. His eyes are so innocent and luminous and he laughs so delightfully; but he can do anything with that face of his. He wanted to describe the mean, shrewd face of a certain young woman, eyes set close together, prim little mouth lined before it is twenty. He did it by doing it and was quite unrecognisable in the process. But there is a striking sensitivity and delicacy about all his views of life and people, which make one say with conviction, &#8216;Yes, I like him thoroughly, even though he is an oddity like most poets.&#8217;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec01ed5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ec01ed5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: Honoured Madam, as Grandmama Thorneycroft&#8217;s children used to begin their letters to her, or should I say, dearest Fizzy and quickly prostrate myself to Lady Abbess, before continuing to sing and prance. I intended to begin a letter to you last night, but sat ruminating on my rewards, Julia cantering happily around after getting back from school.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6c60d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6c60d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICITAS: Julia was his housekeeper&#8217;s little daughter at Heytesbury. He had given her a pony, called Flicker.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-935a3f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"935a3f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: She came in yesterday, while I was having dinner, carrying her prep book. &#8220;What are you learning?&#8217; I asked. &#8216;Rithmatic,&#8221; adding, &#8216;I&#8217;m learning the catechism too.&#8217; &#8216;Oh&#8217;, said I, &#8216; So you&#8217;re learning your pussyism are you?&#8217; And a flower opened in my heart.\n<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-0be3163 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0be3163\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-ded8849\" data-id=\"ded8849\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-740855f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"740855f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\">A flower has opened in my heart.<br>\nWhat flower is this?<br>\nWhat flower of Spring?<br>\nWhat simple, secret thing?<br><br>\n\nIt is the peace that shines apart;<br>\nThe peace of daybreak skies<br>\nThat bring clear song<br>\nAnd wild, swift wing.<br><br>\n\nHeart&#8217;s miracle of inward light,<br>\nWhat powers unknown<br>\nYour seed have sown<br>\nAnd your perfection freed?<br><br>\n\nO flower within me,<br>\nWondrous white,<br>\nI know you only as my need<br>\nAnd my unsealed sight.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-918c511 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"918c511\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: There is one unanswered question &#8211; how much &#8211; if any &#8211; of human memory survives? Why should one want to remember the details, even of happiness on earth? They are akin to dreams, anyhow. I suppose the best thing to do is to say, &#8216;I trust you, God, and I leave it all to you&#8217;. That&#8217;s what I do; and meanwhile faith and works is all that matters. Thus spake Zarathustra &#8211; I beg pardon &#8211; Captain S. L. 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All I know is that my pilgrimage is ended as a man before a crucifix, finding sanctuary; and asking to be ridded of his bibliography personality.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef72707 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ef72707\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\">Bring no expectance of a heaven unearned<br>\nNo hunger for beatitude to be<br>\nUntil the lesson of my life is learned<br>\nthrough what Thou didst for me.<br><br>\n\nBring no assurance of redeemed rest<br>No intimation of awarded grace<br>\nOnly contrition, cleavingly confessed<br>\nTo Thy forgiving face.<br><br>\n\nI ask one world of everlasting loss<br>\nIn all I am, that other world to win.<br>\nMy nothingness must kneel below Thy Cross.<br>\nThere let new life begin.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea18475 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea18475\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: green;\"> DAME FELICITAS: From his tall-windowed, Wiltshire room in the year 1967, on the first day of his favourite month, September, the poet went to stand with those white presences delivered through death. At eight o&#8217;clock on that evening of golden sunshine with its hint of frost, as the cricketer put away his bat and the huntsman shook out his mulberry coat, Captain Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, C.B.E., M.C., alias George Sherston, quietly fell asleep.<\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82ab750 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"82ab750\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: red;\"> SASSOON: I nearly always saw myself engaged in doing something for the first time. All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle to the grave. I am one of those persons, who begin life by exclaiming they&#8217;ve never seen anything like it before, and die in the hope that they may say the same of heaven.\n\n<br><br>\n\nAs regards being dead however one of my main consolations has always been that I have the strongest intention of being an extremely active ghost. Let nobody make any mistake about that. It has been a long journey and my last words shall be these, that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is and ourselves for what the world has made us.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29d6364 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29d6364\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span style=\"color: blue;\"><em>Falling Asleep 1919<\/em><br><br>VOICES moving about in the quiet house:<br>\nThud of feet and a muffled shutting of doors:<br>\nEveryone yawning. Only the clocks are alert.<br><br>\n\n\n\nOut in the night there&#8217;s autumn-smelling gloom<br>\nCrowded with whispering trees; across the park<br>\nA hollow cry of hounds like lonely bells:<br>\nAnd I know that the clouds are moving across the moon;<br>\nThe low, red, rising moon. Now herons call<br>\nAnd wrangle by their pool; and hooting owls<br>\nSail from the wood above pale stooks of oats.<br><br>\n\nWaiting for sleep, I drift from thoughts like these;<br>\nAnd where to-day was dream-like, build my dreams.<br>\nMusic &#8230; there was a bright white room below,<br>\nAnd someone singing a song about a soldier,<br>\nOne hour, two hours ago: and soon the song<br>\nWill be &#8216;last night&#8217;: but now the beauty swings<br>\nAcross my brain, ghost of remembered chords<br>\nWhich still can make such radiance in my dream<br>\nThat I can watch the marching of my soldiers,<br>\nAnd count their faces; faces; sunlit faces.<br><br>\n\nFalling asleep &#8230; the herons, and the hounds&#8230;.<br>\nSeptember in the darkness; and the world<br>\nI&#8217;ve known; all fading past me into peace.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b2324de elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b2324de\" 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