And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:
“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”.
Tag: poetry
The Feast of Hallowmas
You can tell the strange disconnect between the holidays of October 31 and November 1 by the fact that the first is popularly called Halloween, and the second All Saints’ Day. Hallowmas and All Hallows’ Day are among the other names for the church feast of November 1, and from these names, of course, Halloween…
Review: The Ballad of St. Barbara
There is an old legend of St. Barbara, patron saint of artillery and of those in danger of sudden death. And there are, I suppose, few better places to tell it than in the trenches of World War I. The Ballad of St. Barbara is written in two parts, both verse, alternating the legend of…