A Severe Mercy by Vanauken Sheldon

Author:Vanauken, Sheldon [Vanauken, Sheldon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2011-07-25T15:00:00+00:00

But if the agony and death go on,

Our Lady’s tears, Our Lord’s most mortal cry,

So, too, the timeless lovely birth again—

And the forsaken tomb. Today: the dawn

That never ended and can never die

In breaking glory ushers in the slain.

I sent round the whole six sonnets, though he had seen two of them, to C. S. Lewis, and he replied, in part: ‘I think all the sonnets really good. The Sands is v. good, indeed. So is Advent, perhaps it is best. (L. 5 is a corker).’

After Summer Term, several of our friends were going down, including a sad Julian, for whatever part of the world claimed them. For us the Long Vacation and the early autumn was a time of immense work, academically, although we had time for such friends as still remained or who, like Jane, came for a gay visit and a poem or two.

In the autumn the end of our own Oxford day was drawing near. We should be going down in the dead of winter. Julian, now back in his monastery, wrote of wishing to be in Oxford again and spoke of ‘eager’ Davy, that quality that seemed the very essence of her being. And he sent us a poem:

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