The Anathemata
Rite and Fore-time (continued)
Brighting totally
the post-Pliocene
both Pleistocene and Recent.
An aureole here
for Europa’s tundra-beata
who of duck’s bone had made her needle-case.
And where the carboniferous floor
yields from among the elk-bones and the breccia
this separated one
the data of whose cause is known alone to him.
David Jones notes
additional notes
The original text has an image facing this page: Quia per incarnati. Inscription in opaque water-colours, 1948.
see also
semantic structures
glossary
aureole: the gold circle or halo painted around the head of a saint or blessed one.
comments
The evolution of earth and man is continued. Primitive man and woman are just as much entitled to the Catholic state of ‘blessed’ (‘beata’) as post-Christians are; but the reason (‘cause’) and the evidence (‘data’) for this beatification are known to God alone.