The Anathemata
Sherthursdaye and Venus day (continued)
But tell me his cry
no, his cry before his mors-cry.
Of his black-hoürs’ cryings
his ninth hour out-cry. . . .6
David Jones notes
6 Cf. Matt. XXVII, 46. Cf. also G. M. Hopkins.
‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
What hours, O what black hoürs we have spent.’
additional notes
DJ note 6: ‘And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ (Matthew 27:46), which precedes his death cry ‘It is finished’.
For the Hopkins poem, see here.
comments
The cry of despair.