“The Harrowing of Hell” by Scottish poet George Mackay Brown, a perfect beginning meditation for Holy Saturday.<\/p>\n
He went down the first step.
\nHis lantern shone like the morning star.
\nDown and round he went
\nClothed in his five wounds.<\/p>\n
Solomon whose coat was like daffodils
\nCame out of the shadows.<\/p>\n
He kissed Wisdom there, on the second step.
\nThe boy whose mouth had been filled with harp-songs,
\nThe shepherd king
\nGave, on the third step, his purest cry.<\/p>\n
At the root of the Tree of Man, an urn
\nWith dust of apple-blossom.
\nJoseph, harvest-dreamer, counsellor of pharaohs
\nStood on the fourth step.<\/p>\n
He blessed the lingering Bread of Life.
\nHe who had wrestled with an angel,
\nThe third of the chosen,
\nHailed the King of Angels on the fifth step.<\/p>\n
Abel with his flutes and fleeces
\nWho bore the first wound
\nCame to the sixth step with his pastorals.<\/p>\n
On the seventh step down
\nThe tall primal dust
\nTurned with a cry from digging and delving.
\nTomorrow the Son of Man will walk in a garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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