Nancy Kerr 2014
Shortly after she released it, a preeminent online cricket website was describing a boring fourth day of a long cricket match and said: "as Nancy Kerr said in 'Now is the Time', 'Now is that blessed moment'". She has no idea who the writer was. Kerr jokes that was her peak, being quoted on this cricket website.
Nancy Kerr: https://nancykerr.bandcamp.com/track/now-is-the-time
Chorus:
Now is the time, now is that blessed moment
Now is the breath of life sent in turn to weather a gathering rhyme
Be bold and kind, farewell my old discontent
Just ask the heavens’ consent to burn and turn cold days to fine
City of souls blown by the breath of old lovers
Where death’s cold dances hold prisoners so very unkind
Farewell, we sing, dressed in the leavings of others
For guests shall plenty bring and turn cold days to fine
Happy and poor, is that more foolishness, talking?
Will walking Peace’s path preserve your hearth in flame?
Scant seed in store brings feathered visitors flocking
To sing shall comfort bring, for souls are made the same
Sinners, arise and turn your eyes to the waters
For nature’s mortal pool shall bathe all fools in brine
Be not denied when all sure-footedness falters
For earth’s uncertainties have turned our fields to wine