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Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Melvilliana: Saints as Syrens
Melvilliana: Saints as Syrens: Conference paper read June 19, 2009 at the École Biblique in Jerusalem for the Seventh International Melville Conference, Melville and the ...
Yes! Easter happens to fall on the same day for Roman Catholic and Orthodox believers when Clarel gets back to Jerusalem. As explained in 4.33:
And when the day, The Easter, falls in calendar The same to Latin and the array Of all schismatics from afar— Armenians, Greeks from many a shore— Syrians, Copts—profusely pour The hymns: 'tis like the choric gush Of torrents Alpine when they rush To swell the anthem of the spring. That year was now. https://poets.org/poem/clarel-easter
Looks like 1876 was such a year; also 1862, 1865, 1868 and 1871. http://5ko.free.fr/en/easter.php?y=19
Clarel begins at Epiphany or the orthodox Xmas. When the poem ends at Easter, is that also an orthodox Easter? John Gretchko
ReplyDeleteYes! Easter happens to fall on the same day for Roman Catholic and Orthodox believers when Clarel gets back to Jerusalem. As explained in 4.33:
DeleteAnd when the day,
The Easter, falls in calendar
The same to Latin and the array
Of all schismatics from afar—
Armenians, Greeks from many a shore—
Syrians, Copts—profusely pour
The hymns: 'tis like the choric gush
Of torrents Alpine when they rush
To swell the anthem of the spring.
That year was now.
https://poets.org/poem/clarel-easter
Looks like 1876 was such a year; also 1862, 1865, 1868 and 1871. http://5ko.free.fr/en/easter.php?y=19