Suddenly Before The Wilton Diptych (For Carol Norton-Smith) Stand before Wisdom – find you have been led – Stay answered here, for passing drifts to naught; Marry this moment of blest stillness, brought To a high place of art, where angels tread. Faith, prayer and Heaven: peace in silence said – In breathless colours, gestures purely caught; Patterned, all longings and all answers sought By souls who hunger for their daily bread. If ever art could raise up life it&rsq…
