Barbara by Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen

Author:Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909232587
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 2013-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

Come soul, now let us weep

And flesh, thou shalt weep, too.

Now Pastor Gregers’ hollow, plaintive voice could be heard:

Let us now for sorrow weep

With eyes and mind and spirit.

And now all joined in the singing:

Cleanse your unclean heart

Of evil, shame and fault

Replenish it with sigh and pain

Throw off the cloak of sin

The clergymen sang loud and slow, lingering tremulously on certain notes.

It was like a boat full of penitents, rowing hesitantly and uncertainly over treacherous waters. Only the dean sat there as a kind of steersman, with sharp, commanding eyes. Occasionally, he beat the rhythm on the table.

By the time they had reached the twelfth verse, tears were pouring down Pastor Marcus’s cheeks. But Pastor Severin was singing with excited voice and transfigured face.

The twentieth verse was the last. It was sung with un-diminished power and a confident sense of liberation:

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