Enough gloom, here's a poem instead

Apt for the time of year, I feel - heading towards Advent and Christmas, but not there yet. I've always loved this poem, which is hard to find online, even with Google, so I'm practically performing a public service.

So here we are: "After Trinity" - John Meade Faulkner.

( Let it not all be sadness, Nor omnia vanitas, )

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I know a lot of you read Chaucer-hath-blog anyway, but if you don't go and look at his latest entry, on TV pitches: http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2007/11/chaucer-holy-wood-scabbe.html

I particularly like the last suggestion, with a wonderful link between the 'Wanderer' of Anglo-Saxon verse and a television dear to my heart, but his deeply controversial look at religious controversy, 'Sects in the Borough' is pretty funny, too.