“Heaven is a state, a sort of
metaphysical state.”
— John O’Hara,
Hope of Heaven, 1938
“Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca,
ach du lieber August.”
— John O’Hara, Hope of Heaven
Frère Jacques
is a
“canon à quatre voix.”
For another, purely visual,
four-part canon, see the
owl-like picture
in the web page
Poetry’s Bones.
See, too, the Wallace Stevens poem
“The Owl in the Sarcophagus,”
and hear Stevie Nicks as the voice
of The Wizard Owl in a story titled
Frère Jacques.