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The creak and then the call, like monks in pews, These green priests roar at heat’s low antiphon, Tight wound cicadas—now shrieks one, now two, Now millions—hid under apples high strung And still light in their mean and young, tart starch. From the elm tree nooks and the slight dog-wood Nests, new squirrels hurry down and bend the arched Branches to sniff and shake in a new mood— Whole trees shifting with the same silent weight.
Charles Nicolas Cochin II, The Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, ca. 1700s, Red chalk over traces of black chalk, Metropolitan Museum of Art. September 28, 2026 From fire by fire Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Dana Gioia met the sublime as a young child in his parish church in Hawthorne, California, singing to a hidden Lord in an inscrutable language.
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