25th ride

Michelle and I had a 6:00 appointment this evening, so, grateful for the lengthened daylight of this season, I decided to wait and do my ride after it (having been unable to ride earlier in the day). So I went out at 7:00 p.m. and rode my 8.8-mile Textile Big Block in 45 minutes. This was a slight improvement over my first traversing of it, back on March 27 in 47 minutes.

It was lovely weather for a ride -- 54 degrees and sunny. And as I pedaled, I thought on an anthem that I remember Mom singing with the church choir when I was a boy. But I'm grateful for the Internet, as I know I could not remember all the text on my own, 4+ decades later.

All in the April evening,
April airs were abroad;
The sheep with their little lambs
Pass'd me by on the road.

The sheep with their little lambs
Pass'd me by on the road;
All in an April evening
I thought on the Lamb of God.

The lambs were weary, and crying
With a weak human cry;
I thought on the Lamb of God
Going meekly to die.

Up in the blue, blue mountains
Dewy pastures are sweet:
Rest for the little bodies,
Rest for the little feet.

Rest for the Lamb of God
Up on the hill-top green;
Only a cross of shame
Two stark crosses between.

All in the April evening,
April airs were abroad;
I saw the sheep with their lambs,
And thought on the Lamb of God.