On The Roof

I am sitting on the roof. Whether I am literally doing so or metaphorically doing so, it is all of the same effect. For as the Good Book says, it is good to dwell in the corner of the housetop, as is said in the Proverbs, and to stay there; and to preach what you have heard from it, as is written in the First Commission.

And perhaps that is one of the things that one thinks of when one listens to that lovely musical, 'Fiddler on the Roof'. Then I do, indeed, regret that I never learnt to play a stringed instrument.

But it is peaceful up on the roof, and it is a good night, a calm night, a silent night, a holy night.