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The Sixth Lamentation

William Brodrick

‘L’Occupation’ April’s tiny hands once captured Paris, As you once captured me: infant Trojan Fingers gently peeled away my resistance To your charms. It was an epiphany; I saw waving palms, rising dust, and yes, I even heard the stones cry out your name, Agnes. And then the light fell short. I made a pact with the Devil when the ‘Spring Wind’ came, when Priam’s son lay bleeding On the ground. As morning broke the scattered Stones whispered ‘God, what have you done?’ and yes, I betrayed you both. Can you forgive me, Agnes? (August, 1942) Translated from the French by Father Anselm Duffy Feast of Saint Agnes Larkwood Priory, 21st January 1998 Part One ‘Now is the time for the burning of the leaves’ (Laurence Binyon, The Burning of the Leaves’, 1942)