The Land of Beginning Again Poem

Last dark I vicious asleep reading "The Land of Offset Again" by Louisa Fletcher (Mrs. Willard Connely). Ambian® couldn't accept worked any meliorate.

My wife and son are at the Junior Classical League of North Carolina, held each yr at Wake Forest. John Michael is having a blast. He is in his element at writing Latin-related plays, so performing them, and today doing sight reading (I just learned that he won a Gilt Medal terminal nighttime for writing "modern myth." I am so very proud of him). Then I am praying for him and all of the others, that they may do their best and as unto the Lord. Simply, alone here, I am thinking of many other things. Equally I went to bed last nighttime, I decided to read verse. I am reading through Poems for Patriarchs: The Verse and Prose of Christian Manhood ^[one]. I was so moved every bit I came across a quaint old poem, early xx^th century, "The Land of Start Over again." Coming upon this item poem was like a pleasant, serendipidous meet at a book store (but in my bed!) with an old friend (careful with quoting this, please!). I have used this poem in several sermons beyond the years. It was proficient to settle downward and read it for itself, not for homiletic employment necessarily, but pure personal soul enrichment, which is what a poem should do in my way of thinking. How wonderful my time was with this verse by Mrs. Connely.

Not all poems make it to the movies, simply this ane did. The verse form started in a magazine, Harpers, then made it to impress in a collection of her works, with this most famous poem beingness the title of her 1921 book^[2] (that I at present happily own) When Bing Crosby sang the lyrical-musical version of this verse form in "The Bells of St. Mary" (if you accept never heard it, you owe yourself this mind) every bit Male parent Charles "Chuck" O'Malley, well, it was but the thing to repose the hearts, if non for three minutes, of worried mothers and fathers, and young wives, over their men across the sea, mopping upwardly a earth war. The song (1945) with words and music by Grant Clarke and George Meyer^[3] is based quite unmistably, if not unashamedly, on the poem. And it is equally wonderfully center-warming to listen to equally it is to read, though some words have been inverse and other lines added. But one tin can appreciate the heartbeat of the poem even in the adapted lyrics. And having "Begetter O'Malley" croon information technology out doesn't hurt a bit. Merely hither is the thing that got me: another poet had taken liberty with Louisa Fletcher's little poesy, just like the songwriters, and had added a few lines. I normally don't capeesh such unpermitted collaaberation, only, once again like the erstwhile Bing Crosby song, I didn't heed at all. Irena Arnold added five new stanzas to arrange the poem to her ain reflection on its beautiful message. I quote from one of them:

"There's a wonderful place for the whole human race

Called "The Country of Beginning Once more;"

Where the acts of the past, in forgiveness bandage,

Rise no more than, for God's pardon we gain!

And the Savior we fine, who will ever be kind

As the King of our hearts, He shall reign.

And though sin-ill and pitiful, we will always exist glad,

In "The Land of Showtime Again." ^[4]

The poem that started so long ago every bit a sentiment for the hope in the heart of every human being for a new life, a new first, became the hope of a nation in World War Two, and adpated to the bulletin of the Gospel of Jesus Christ became an illustration in sermons, and finally, for me, alone in my bed, the sweet, quiet presence of Jesus Christ.

"I will restore State of israel to his pasture, and  he shall feed on  Carmel and in  Bashan, and his want shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in  Gilead" (Jeremiah l.19).

"Therefore, if anyone is  in Christ, he is  a new creation.   The old has passed away; behold, the new has come" (2 Corinthians five.17).

And those promises are truly leading u.s. on to "The Land of Offset Once again." Thank you Mrs. Connely. Cheers Irena Arnold. Thanks Lord. I know, in my life, that embedded in this poem is the ability of the Gospel, a new heavens and a new earth, a "Land of Beginning Again." It is a "land" that we can, though Christ, begin to claim even now. Once again.

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^[ane] Poems for Patriarchs: The Verse and Prose of Christian Manhood, ed. Douglas W. Phillips (San Antonio, TX: The Vision Forum, Inc., 2005).

^[2] Louisa Fletcher,The Country of Offset Over again (Boston,: Pocket-size, [c1921]).

^[three] Grant and Meyer Clarke, George West.,In the Land of Get-go Once again, Flick, "The Bells of St. Mary'southward".

^[4] Poems for Patriarchs: The Poesy and Prose of Christian Manhood, 52.

Bibliography

Clarke, Grant and Meyer, George Due west. In the Land of Beginning Again. Film, "The Bells of St. Mary's". 1946.

Fletcher, Louisa. The Land of Kickoff Again. Boston,: Pocket-sized, [c1921].

Poems for Patriarchs: The Poesy and Prose of Christian Manhood. Edited past Douglas W. Phillips. San Antonio, TX: The Vision Forum, Inc., 2005.

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