Christmas, For the Time Being

God's Will will be done.

Two years ago, I made my long overdue first acquaintance with W. H. Auden. I had long been a card-carrying T. S. Eliot fangirl and anticipated this would be a similar experience. I was not disappointed, though I never did find anything in Auden’s catalogue that touched and shaped me so profoundly as Eliot’s “Four Quartets.” For me, the piece that came t…