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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,
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.”
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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