November 26, 2008

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  Minnesota Thanksgiving

   

  For that free Grace bringing us past great risks

  And through great grief surviving to this feast

  Sober and still, with the children unborn and born,

  Among brave friends, Lord, we stand again in debt

  And find ourselves in the glad position: Gratitude.

   

  We praise our ancestors who delivered us here

  Within warm walls all safe, aware of music,

  Likely toward ample and attractive meat

  With whatever accompaniment

  Kate in her kind ingenuity has seen fit to devise,

   

  And we hope – across the most strange year to come –

  Continually to do them and You not sufficient honour

  But such as we become able to devise

  Out of a decent or joyful conscience and thanksgiving.

  Yippee!

   

  Bless then, as Thou wilt, this wilderness board.

   

  John Berryman

   

  

   

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