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Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Harrowing of Hell Here is George Mackay Brown, poet of Orkney, in his poem entitled “The Harrowing of Hell:” He went down the first step. His lantern shone like the morning star. Down and round he went Clothed in his five wounds. Six steps follow: on second he meets Solomon; third David; fourth Joseph; fifth Jacob; sixth Abel On the seventh step down The tall primal dust [Adam] Turned with a cry from digging and delving. “Tomorrow,” ends the poem, “the Son of Man will walk in a garden Through drifts of apple-blossom.” (“The Harrowing of Hell,” in Northern Lights [London: John Murray, 1999], 24.)
posted by John David Walt | at 4/11/2009 03:01:00 AM
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