The Anathemata

Sherthursdaye and Venus day (continued)

At the threshold-stone

lifts the agéd head?

can toothless beast from stable come

discern the Child

in the Bread?

David Jones notes

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Argos again. ‘Bread’ here is the consecrated bread of the Eucharist, i.e. the body of Christ.

This is the clearest and most succinct statement in the poem of DJ’s belief that there is a close threefold relationship uniting the Nativity, Calvary and the Eucharist.

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