HAPPY SINGING?

Plaintive brother
Mourning dove
My heart goes out
  to you.
Does your soulful music
Make you
  melancholy?
Or is there
Unheard joy
  singing
As the Lord ordained?

—Nancy Spiegelberg

"... I will turn their mourning
into joy, and will comfort them,
and make them rejoice from
their sorrow.

Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy
voice from weeping, and thine
eyes from tears: for thy work
shall be rewarded, saith the Lord;"
Jeremiah 31:13,16

©1981 Nancy Spiegelberg