Loud are the bells of Norwich
And the people come and go
Here by the tower of Julian
I tell them what I know.
Ring out bells of Norwich and let the winter come and go.
All shall be well again, I know.
Love like a yellow daffodil
Is coming through the snow,
Love like a yellow daffodil
Is Lord of all I know.
On this beautiful sunny morning we revived Sydney Carter's song from 1981, JULIAN OF NORWICH, learning the alto and bass parts.
It's remarkable how that phrase, All shall be well again, I know, the words of the medieval mystic, a woman, though called Julian of Norwich after the cathedral beneath which she lived in a cell, has kept resonating through the ages, in good times and bad and it is a wonderful, feel good sing as we look towards the spring after a gloomy winter.
Coming back from the coffee, and in response to our Welsh member who had bemoaned our failure to mark Saint David's day last week, we relaxed for a few minutes to listen to the beautiful lullaby Suo Gan played by harpist Catrin Finch and sung by soprano Caryl Ebenezer.
