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GRANDFATHER by George Bowering தமிழ் summary | MA ENG | poem summary

POEM LINES ✍️ GRANDFATHER Grandfather Jabez Harry Bowering strode across the Canadian prairie hacking down trees and building churches delivering personal baptist sermons in them leading Holy holy holy lord god almighty songs in them red haired man squared off in the pulpit reading Saul on the road to Damascus at them Left home big walled Bristol town at age eight to make a living buried his stubby fingers in root snarled earth for a suit of clothes and seven hundred gruelly meals a year taking an anabaptist cane across the back every day for four years till he was whipped out of England Twelve years old and across the ocean alone to apocalyptic Canada Ontario of bone bending child labour six years on the road to Damascus till his eyes were blinded with the blast of Christ and he wandered west to Brandon among wheat kings and heathen Saturday nights young red haired Bristol boy shoveling coal in the basement of Brandon college five in the morning Then built his first wooden church and married a sick girl who bore two live children and died leaving several pitiful letters and the Manitoba night He moved west with another wife and built children and churches Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia Holy holy holy lord god almighty struck his laboured bones with pain and left him a postmaster prodding grandchildren with crutches another dead wife and a glass bowl of photographs and holy books unopened save the bible by the bed Till he died the day before his eighty-fifth birthday in a Catholic hospital of sheets white as his hair