Display Title: A Stable Lamp Is Lighted First Line: A stable lamp is lighted Tune Title: ANDUJAR Author: Richard Wilbur Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.6.7.6 Scripture: Psalm 22:1; Matthew 21:1-9; Matthew 27:45-46; Mark 11:1-10; Luke 2:7; Luke 2:16; Luke 19:28-40; Luke 23:44; John 12:12-15 Date: 2013 Subject: Christian Year | Nativity/Christmas; Christian Year | Baptism of Jesus; Christian Year | Transfiguration; Christian Year | Palm Sunday; Christian Year | Good Friday; Christian Year | Resurrection/Easter; Jesus Christ | Life; Reconciliation |
Glory to God #160
Richard Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921. He graduated with a B.A. from Amherst, where he was editor of the college newspaper, in 1942. Youthful engagements with leftist causes caught the attention of federal investigators when he was in training as a U.S. Army cryptographer, and he was demoted to a front-line infantry position where he saw action in the field in Italy, France and Germany. (When the cryptographer in Wilbur’s unit was killed, Wilbur also took over that function.) After demobilization, he continued his studies at Harvard where he obtained an M.A. in 1947, the year his first book was published. He was a member of the prestigious Harvard Fellows and taught there until 1954, when he moved to Wellesley and then… Go to person page >
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