#TIL the curate who wrote the #Hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" also wrote "The Book of the Were-Wolves"

AND the "training up" of his lower class teenage fiancée into suitable curate marriage material was probably part of the inspiration for #GeorgeBernardShaw 's " #Pygmalion" (they were friends in later life)

AND he taught classes with a pet bat on his shoulder

AND he's the ancestor of comedian #JoshWiddicombe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Baring-Gould

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-were-wolves/

#Werewolf #SabineBaringGould

A #hymn .

https://youtu.be/bDjwUzUnNpU?is=wG7DhPjtCKOLtkke

And #Heinlein 's added verse.

Almighty Ruler of us all
Whose power extends to great and small,
Who guides the stars with steadfast law,
Whose least creation fills with awe;
Oh, grant Thy mercy and Thy grace
To those who venture into #space.

Practicing a hymn on piano

https://peertube.wtf/w/mCxyTcTA3GWekCCEMNs1ie

Today's poem:

By Good Forces Surrounded
- by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/809243134196400128/by-good-forces-surrounded?source=share

#Nazism #DietrichBonhoeffer #resistance #pastor #Christian #poetry #hymn