May Coronations - London and Tamworth NH 2023

How paltry a thing

To crown  a human king !

Minions flash the red and gold

Joyful music, awe is sold

Stories past, an empire told

Weaving priests and soldiers bold

Centuries of rituals hold

Echoes die in vaulting cold

Keep the subjects in the fold

Let us rather crown our Queen!

One spring morning

Chilly, greening,

Here In Tamworth guests assembling:

A single persistent drumming grouse

A bear stirs somewhere in the woods

Four high geese, mournful, skeining

Ten goldfinches flocking

A hundred thousand violets on their usual bank

A million fiddleheads unwinding

Untold multitudes of leaves a-budding

And  bearer of the cynosure

The jewel of jewels

There in the centre of the crown

The ruby-throated humming bird

Arrived on time from southern clime!

So let us celebrate our Queen!

Queen  and mother, Nature, Self

Sphere of fire and water,

Ring of rock and sky

Throne her stone of destiny

Cast the circles rippling out

Break the winter’s icy hold

Hold Her in Her warm embrace

Makes us agents, makes us free

God save our gracious Queen!

God save our noble Queen!

God save The Queen!

The winding spirit of the sun

The guiding hand through darkest night

Our dawn, our noon, our murmuring day

Vivet regina ! Vivat!

Vivat in aeturno!

Seculorum secula!

Ever and forever

Chorus swelling, life upwelling!

Ever and forever

Fragile resurrecting Earth 

Gaia living, without end.