Post by LOVELYRITA on Aug 11, 2007 15:58:09 GMT -5
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure done decree
But lofty thoughts were led astray
By withered minds too blind to see
Now comes the ancient mariner
With grim tales yet untold
Of troubadours and knights of yore
Cast on a cross of gold
Their trust they place in graven words
Their sophists speak to lie
But those whom force of law can make
Can law of force defy
In England's green and pleasant land
Man thinking heard that Grecian sound
And he allowed that hearth and home
Should n'er be harmed by clerk or gnome
In truth and justice will we live
With hope and honour in our breast
Out out damn mystics let us be
Farms for people towns for free
William Shepherd was born a British citizen in 1946, and brought up an Anglican Christian in the south of England. In 1989 at the age of 43, William Shepherd's worldly experiences and his academic learning led him to conclude that the scientific evidence for a supernatural order 'apart from'the natural order was overwhelming. Whether we label this divine reality "God" or "Nature" or "The life force" or "The Holy SPirit' is of much smaller significance than our recognition of a spiritual realm and of its mysterious nature. In short, William Shepherd recognises the inalienable sovereignty of teh Human Spirit...and the need to approach Our World with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. This insight has inspired his work over the past 12 years. He is what he had to say about himself in the spring of 1991.
William Shepherd acquired his academic knowledge of Life, the Universe and Everything from studies in the Mechanical Sciences, the LIberal Arts and teh Work and Wealth accounting in teh modern world at CHrist's Hospital School, Sussex; Churchill College, Cambride; The University of East Africa in Nairobi; Stockhom and Uppsala Universities in Sweden; Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA and Wheelock College for Teachers in Boston.
William Shepherd's worldly experiences have been gained working and living the city regions of Stockholm, London, Nairobi, Blantyre, Muscat, Luxembourg, Boston and Los Angeles; and the rural small town environments of Kenya's Rift Valley, New England's Martha's Vineyard, the Mississippi River town of Muscatine in Iowa, and Canterbury in the Garden of England.
William Shepherd took a Swedish wife in 1969 and was married to her for 15 years, their marriage being blessed with a daughter in 1973 and a son in 1975. Since setting out into the world once again as a single man, William Shepherd has been graced with two long and loving relationships, with a Jewess of Polish extraction from St. Louis, MIssouri; adn with a devout Catholic form Bogota in Colombia; but otherwise has preferred to devote his time and energy to scholarship and to the callings peculiar to The Poet.
Since his return to the UK from AMerican in November 1987, William Shepherd has lived in a small studio apartment on Kungsholmen in the centre of Stockholm, and within walking distance of evensong at Caterbury Cathedral. In August 1990 William Shepherd opened an office in Rye, SUssex and formerly declared himself the first scholar of the Cinque Ports Academic Inn.
As he gazes acros the rooftops of the Old Benedictine Monastery towards the roling Sussex downs the beyond, he dreams of the day when he and other Academic Inn Scholars will tend their gardens, sing their songs, and cross the sea in boats to meet with their friends a day's sailing away (with a good southwesterly) at the other end of the Ancient Water Trails across the English Channel.
to be continued...the gods willing....
Did a google search of William Shepherd of England and found this piece and one of his poems.
I thought it was a curiosity and wanted to share it with the readers here.
May it serve you well....
A stately pleasure done decree
But lofty thoughts were led astray
By withered minds too blind to see
Now comes the ancient mariner
With grim tales yet untold
Of troubadours and knights of yore
Cast on a cross of gold
Their trust they place in graven words
Their sophists speak to lie
But those whom force of law can make
Can law of force defy
In England's green and pleasant land
Man thinking heard that Grecian sound
And he allowed that hearth and home
Should n'er be harmed by clerk or gnome
In truth and justice will we live
With hope and honour in our breast
Out out damn mystics let us be
Farms for people towns for free
William Shepherd was born a British citizen in 1946, and brought up an Anglican Christian in the south of England. In 1989 at the age of 43, William Shepherd's worldly experiences and his academic learning led him to conclude that the scientific evidence for a supernatural order 'apart from'the natural order was overwhelming. Whether we label this divine reality "God" or "Nature" or "The life force" or "The Holy SPirit' is of much smaller significance than our recognition of a spiritual realm and of its mysterious nature. In short, William Shepherd recognises the inalienable sovereignty of teh Human Spirit...and the need to approach Our World with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. This insight has inspired his work over the past 12 years. He is what he had to say about himself in the spring of 1991.
William Shepherd acquired his academic knowledge of Life, the Universe and Everything from studies in the Mechanical Sciences, the LIberal Arts and teh Work and Wealth accounting in teh modern world at CHrist's Hospital School, Sussex; Churchill College, Cambride; The University of East Africa in Nairobi; Stockhom and Uppsala Universities in Sweden; Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA and Wheelock College for Teachers in Boston.
William Shepherd's worldly experiences have been gained working and living the city regions of Stockholm, London, Nairobi, Blantyre, Muscat, Luxembourg, Boston and Los Angeles; and the rural small town environments of Kenya's Rift Valley, New England's Martha's Vineyard, the Mississippi River town of Muscatine in Iowa, and Canterbury in the Garden of England.
William Shepherd took a Swedish wife in 1969 and was married to her for 15 years, their marriage being blessed with a daughter in 1973 and a son in 1975. Since setting out into the world once again as a single man, William Shepherd has been graced with two long and loving relationships, with a Jewess of Polish extraction from St. Louis, MIssouri; adn with a devout Catholic form Bogota in Colombia; but otherwise has preferred to devote his time and energy to scholarship and to the callings peculiar to The Poet.
Since his return to the UK from AMerican in November 1987, William Shepherd has lived in a small studio apartment on Kungsholmen in the centre of Stockholm, and within walking distance of evensong at Caterbury Cathedral. In August 1990 William Shepherd opened an office in Rye, SUssex and formerly declared himself the first scholar of the Cinque Ports Academic Inn.
As he gazes acros the rooftops of the Old Benedictine Monastery towards the roling Sussex downs the beyond, he dreams of the day when he and other Academic Inn Scholars will tend their gardens, sing their songs, and cross the sea in boats to meet with their friends a day's sailing away (with a good southwesterly) at the other end of the Ancient Water Trails across the English Channel.
to be continued...the gods willing....
Did a google search of William Shepherd of England and found this piece and one of his poems.
I thought it was a curiosity and wanted to share it with the readers here.
May it serve you well....
