Calypso Dreaming by Charles Butler

Author:Charles Butler [Charles Butler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007404858
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

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Revelation

Cold. Cold. My hand feels nothing. And there is no light neither, till I light a match and watch him burn, make a finger cathedral as he flares up on that wall. Quickly I light the tallows, two score of them, to stake my yard of holiness. They form a shrine about St Brigan, who has come to bless Sweetholm. To you, Saint, I pledge my service.

Brigan of the bright face, do you accuse me? Have I been lacking in my service? But not in my devotion! Your bones should be gilded, stand above the canons’ perpetual chanting, be adored to the sound of choir and organ. Such was the strain of our fathers, which so pleased you that you made their island a second paradise, a haven for the sea-tossed and a pilgrimage for the holy.

And now it is abased. Your sacred ground is overgrown, the immortal flame has been left to gutter and die. Even your name is turned to the glory of other gods. Shepherdess, healer, seer, smith: tell me, how shall I be justified?

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