after-salvation

Updated: May 12, 2025

Now have I said how the heart of the Black Earl woke to love, and then was humbled, as the ancient crone had foretold; but of his sorrowful years, his desperate danger of eternal loss and his after-salvation, must I likewise tell, if the story would be pitiful in the ending. Therefore shall I lay my harp aside, and so go back in my telling.

Dora Sigerson Shorter - The Story and Song of Black Roderick