The rosewood organ pipes, two stories tall, Are skewed according to the architect’s Taste for the mischievous diagonal; Better this giant’s game of pickup sticks, He seems to tell us, than the sturdily Hierarchical ensemble in the church Where the composer made these burgherly Chorales in celebration of the birth Of a redeemer perched upon a throne At the same altitude from which the choir Would pour down on the silent congregation Their…… More »