Paschal Tide is a Western Christian term for the fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost. In Eastern Christianity, this period is referred to as the Pentecostarion.
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“the tide lays down its wet throat
and alters the land to island—even as I watch
I say there is no shore
apart from stories of it,
no smoke, no hut, no beacon ...”
—Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)