The Anathemata
Rite and Fore-time (continued)
Who was he? Who?
Himself at the cave-mouth
the last of the father-figures
to take the dirimenta stroke
of the last gigantic leader of
thick-felled cave-fauna?
Whoever he was
Dona ei requiem
sempiternam.
(He would not lose him
. . . non perdidi
ex eis quemquam.) 1
David Jones notes
1 Quoted from the Good Friday Liturgy. ‘. . . I have not lost of them any single one’.
additional notes
see also
semantic structures
glossary
a diriment: that nullifies; i.e. deadly.
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