Origin of the Brunists by Robert Coover

Author:Robert Coover
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Origin of the Brunists
ISBN: 9781453280683
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 1966-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

As he sings, he touches them, touches her. Tears come. The great hymn and the great voice pierce to the very core of her being, where now she sits, withdrawn, in the dark, for her eyes are closed, in the saddest joy she’s ever known. Her childhood, her mother, church camps and revivals, damp spring nights and cold winters by a coal-stove, snow on her father’s mining boots, Eddie and the war and the mines, all her dear friends, her children scattered over the world, trees lit for Christmas and the pink frock she danced in, prayer and love and Ely and Jesus, all her life seems like a beautiful instant, miraculously captured in the divine moment of this song, this man’s voice. Slowly, as though under its own power, out of the dark core, her own voice emerges, gentle, tempered, truer than she’s ever heard it, to harmonize in a tender humming plaint behind his radiant refrains:

“‘Twa-as Grace tha-a-at taught my-y heart to-o fear,

A-and Grace my-y-y fear re-elieved;

Ha-ow pre-ecio-ou-ous did tha-at Grace a-appear,

Thee-e haour I-I-I first be-elieved!”

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