The Book of Enoch

(August 2012)

Enoch at 100
edited by Lord Howard of Rising
Biteback Publishing, xxix+320 pp.

So soon the summer comes again,
And still I languish here,
My ankled fastened with the chain
I wore last year.

Now green and golden stand the trees
And warm and scented brings the breeze
To touch the free.

On hills I shall not climb, the haze
Of evening lingers red,
And grey at morning gleam the ways
I shall not tread.

For all the merry summer through,
I shall sit and penance do,
A-breaking stones.

Here Powell portrays the adventitious operation of grace. (An excellent companion piece to his story is the chapter of The Rage Against God in which Peter Hitchens recalls seeing a depiction of the Last Judgment and considering, for the first time in his life, the possibility of his own eternal damnation.)

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