The Anathemata
Sherthursdaye and Venus day (continued)
(On the keels-roads
on her sea who is lodea of it
they would be sounding six bells
and the first dog-watch relief
can bide a full hour yet.)2
David Jones notes
2 At sea the first dog-watch or half-watch is from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Cf. page 96 above, ‘What bells is that, etc.’
The synoptic gospels agree that our Lord died at 3 p.m.
additional notes
a lode: in the sense of ‘guide’or ‘leader’. The reference is to Mary.
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