James Nicholas ("Nick") Rowe
Monday, June 20, 2011
This is Gilbert's latest commission. The subject is James Nicholas Rowe, a POW who escaped captivity during the Vietnam War.
I said to my soul, be still,
and wait without hope
and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
wait without love,
wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing;
there is yet faith
there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope
are all in the waiting.
are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought,
for you are not ready for thought:
for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light,
and the stillness
the dancing.
and the stillness
the dancing.
— T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets, "East Coker"
Four Quartets, "East Coker"
