Friday 25 March 2016

Artistic Impressions of the Agony in the Garden

Agony in the Garden, studios of El Greco (c. 1590s), National Gallery of Art, London UK 

Could ye not stay awake with me an hour,
You who by your consent would die for me?
Could you not stay awake with me one hour?
Look!
Judas--do not not see how he does not sleep,
But hastens to hand me over to the Jews?
Why are you sleeping?
Arise, and pray,
Lest you fall into tempetation.
Judas--Look!
       ~Sept répons des ténébres (1962)
         Francis Poulenc 


2 comments:

  1. I too love to look at the artists' impressions even mentally when meditating in the Agony in the Garden.

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  2. Correction: meditating on...

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