Quakers de Paris

In 2009, Ben Pink Dandelion published Celebrating the Quaker Way, a brief handbook that was to be translated into many different languages. Thanks to Quakers in the western French city of Nantes, there is now a French version, in six episodes.

The Dead

In the wind that blows
The veils of widows
All float on one side

And the mingled tears
Of a thousand sorrows
In one stream glide.

Pressing each other close the dead
Who own no hatred and no flag,
Their hair veneered with clotted blood,
The dead are all on the same side.

In the one clay where endlessly
Beginnings blend with the world that dies
The bothered dead lain cheek to cheek
Today atone for the same defeat.

Divided sons, fight on, fight on,
You lacerate humanity
And tear the earth apart in vain,
The dead are all on the same side;

Under the earth no more than one
One field, one single hope abide,
As for the universe can only be
One combat and one victory.

René Arcos, translated from the French

Launched during French Yearly Meeting, which took place in Paris from Saturday October 27 to Tuesday the 28th, the new work provides a history of Quakerism in France along with a rich store of quotations and French versions of Advices & Queries and a chapter on Faith and Practice.

151 pages, available at the International Quaker Centre in Paris

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