<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397188" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Procession of All Souls</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gnarled and blessed<br>be the hour of autumn<br>when spotted pears sink<br>into wet sod, and blessed be<br>the songs of virgins rising<br>into the hunchbacked trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">November dawn.<br>Down damp stone stairs<br>we followed the priest,<br>past leaf-choked wells<br>and jagged trees,<br>past the red rage of dogwood<br>ringing a black lake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dies Irae, he intoned,<br>Dies Illae, day of wrath.<br>We followed his swinging<br>censer, trail of smoke:<br>schoolgirls in gray, novices<br>in white veils, nuns in ragged black<br>tapping tortoise canes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What joy to bear the fear,<br>to smell orbs of incense<br>perfuming the rot of leaves,<br>to cross the stubbled field<br>as crows rushed and whirled,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">pecking at windfall seeds.<br>We arrived, rainsoaked, awed<br>to watch young nun-brides<br>kneel, and spread their thin bodies<br>across green doors of graves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Geraldine+Connolly">Geraldine Connolly</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397188" data-title="Procession of All Souls de Geraldine Connolly" data-description="Gnarled and blessed be the hour of autumn when spotted pears sink into wet sod, and blessed be the songs of virgins rising into the hunchbacked trees. November dawn. Down damp stone stairs we followed the priest, past leaf-choked wells and jagged..."></div> </div> </div>

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