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For

Professor Dr. Don O. Franklin,

With gratitude for many years of encouragement and friendship.

By Ruth Tatlow,

On behalf of all your many friends, students, and colleagues,

and especially the authors of this volume.

Paragramma Cabbalisticum trigonale*		Ex Lib. Danielis Cap. XII: 3
Professor	1014	Those	517
Don	206	who	372
O.	105	are	169
Franklin,	523	Wise	462
Teacher,	416	will	408
Conductor,	876	shine	358
and	102	Brilliantly,	1002
Scholar;	538	and	102
Encourager	777	Those	517
of	126	who	372
students	1048	put	520
especially	781	others	670
those	517	on	196
working	708	the	241
on	196	Right	452
music	510	Path	347
by	279	to	295
Joh.	186	Life	147
Sebast.	551	will	408
BBaach	50	radiate	415
		like	181
		Stars	686
		forever	672
	9509		9509

Alphabetum trigonale:*

Sebastian Bach’s was the music Don chose

To teach and research, with canons that wove

To form unified sounds of harmony and peace,

With structures and themes that never will cease.

He conducted and played and sang all year round

With joy so infectious, so great and profound.

Don inspired all his students to listen and see

what marvel the music by Bach is and can be

beyond score, ink, and paper, with sounds to express

the height and the depth of the joy and distress

of each woman and man in their days here on earth,

and the thrill of eternity’s call through new birth.

Anapestic tetram’ter I chose for this rhyme

Although Bach and his friends would choose Alexandrine.

It was normal for them at a wedding or party

To honour the hero with odes that were hearty.

Recounting fine deeds, they used a technique,

Changing letters for numbers in words, some antique,

That made the same total, give or take two,

Symmetrically showing how apt and how true

Was the biblical text for their hero. Our Don,

Whose wisdom has helped to guide many along

New paths that have proved to be just the right way,

Is the subject today; so with one voice let’s say:

“Like a star may Don shine,” as Daniel describes,

“Ever radiating the wisdom that first blessed our lives.”