It's about a rendez-vous with a girl in the town of Bury St Edmunds, county of Suffolk, England.
He crosses Athenaeum Lane street that runs between Angel Hill and Churchgate Street:
"Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel
Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral"
and reaches Bury St Edmunds Cathedral...there he waits his date to come up and he's contemplating the graves:
"Fugitive fathers, sickly infants, decent mothers
Runaways and suicidal lovers
Assorted boxes of ordinary bones"
at the right time( "The bell from St. Edmunds informs me of the hour") his girl appears and all his sad thoughts dissapear:
"Leave these ancient places to the angels
Let the saints attend to their keeping of the cathedrals
And leave the dead beneath the ground so cold"
nothing else matters for him but his girlfriend, she's the only thing alive:
"For God is in this hand that I hold".
It's very nice the contrast between the dead ones, the cold world, people dead and buried and the light, warm world represented by this woman.
It's about a rendez-vous with a girl in the town of Bury St Edmunds, county of Suffolk, England. He crosses Athenaeum Lane street that runs between Angel Hill and Churchgate Street: "Past the ivy-covered windows of The Angel Down Athenaeum Lane to the cathedral"
and reaches Bury St Edmunds Cathedral...there he waits his date to come up and he's contemplating the graves: "Fugitive fathers, sickly infants, decent mothers Runaways and suicidal lovers Assorted boxes of ordinary bones"
at the right time( "The bell from St. Edmunds informs me of the hour") his girl appears and all his sad thoughts dissapear: "Leave these ancient places to the angels Let the saints attend to their keeping of the cathedrals And leave the dead beneath the ground so cold"
nothing else matters for him but his girlfriend, she's the only thing alive: "For God is in this hand that I hold".
It's very nice the contrast between the dead ones, the cold world, people dead and buried and the light, warm world represented by this woman.
@baudolino spot on.
@baudolino spot on.