On John Updike and eternity

From The Boston Globe-

John Updike died seven years ago this week. His last poem, “Fine Point,” is a meditation on the 23rd Psalm:

The tongue reposes in papyrus pleas,

saying, Surely —magnificent, that “surely” —

goodness and mercy shall follow me all

the days of my life, my life, forever.

It is a poem that finds solace in the Christian promise — “surely” — that believers will “dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Updike, an intellectual and an ironist, must have known that “surely,” a translation from the original Hebrew, was a slender reed to hang a faith upon.

More here-

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/01/25/updike-and-eternity/K4iPEbN4xRfPHzs2tpXt3L/story.html