in the fields under the stars
sleeping
sleeping
sleeping
·
·
·
·
·
three
one + ONE + one
equals
·
we sing Thy praises Lord, talk endlessly of Thy sacrifice
Thy greatness Lord is sung of in this far land by many who never knew You in Your humanness, Your frailties
we are shadows Lord, cast out from Thee, fallen upon this distant shore among other shadows, Your orchads
our voices echo over the rocks & trees & in our echoing Lord we praise Thee
·
but did you see them upon the mountain tops?
no
or in the hills of Albion?
no
·
gone & forever gone gone
without hope of returning
gone in human body gone
into death into heaven into
gone beyond reach of talking
gone beyond reach of singing
in our prayers
listening
the wind
the leaves
bird songs
among the shifting, creaking
·
were said to have
visited many villages
preaching
a sight
remarkable for
its strangeness
Andronicus
depicting Buamundus as
a convert from
the ranks of
the Green Man
who now declared
Christ & Jehovah
greater than
the deities & godlings of
these parts
tho many questioned the effectiveness of
one prayer one God
whether He could
possibly answer them all
(most having come from large families)
the idea
took hold
·
some rumours of
strange encounters in
these times
a woman
returning home late
saw the giant
naked dancing in a field
accompanied by
three equally naked
girls
Buamundus
declared another giant
guilty
tho none were known in
those parts
·
certain: nothing
uncertain: they converted many of the small villages & isolated holdings in the southwest of most of what was then Britain
certain: by 75 A.D. Christianity had spread thru most of Britain
uncertain: what these three had to do with it.
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85 a.d.
·
a description then, some listing of their last years, their deaths
·
part 4
‘bran, crow
bran vras, raven
bran dre, rook’
from A CORNISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY edited by Morton Vance
· (some history sketched)
· (a sermon: fragments)
did this thing as i have told you of which if there is any man or woman can say different step forward
so in my grieving it came to me a penance i could do in this world for he who tries to enter into heaven shall open the gates of hell you must renounce your claim on heaven to enter it you must enter into this world to claim heaven
take up our words as we took up His your conviction convinces others of His words
do not be quick to rebuke or condemn lest in the words leaving your lips you echo yourself
we will not see it in our lifetime nor in our children’s lifetime nor in the lifetimes of their children’s children but in the time of all their children this loving & this forgiveness will be everywhere until we will have founded the peaceful Kingdom God intended for us in this world
· (a further geography [hindsight])
the unknown
was/is
(at least partially)
Canada
later
‘The New World’
where
‘the streets were
paved with
gold’