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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

I have news for you: Ninth Century Irish poem

I have news for you:
The stag bells, winter snows, summer has gone
Wind high and cold, the sun low, short its course
The sea running high.
Deep red the bracken; its shape is lost;
The wild goose has raised its accustomed cry,
cold has seized the birds' wings;
season of ice, this is my news.
Anonymous

Scribbled by a monk on the margin of his manuscript in ninth century, Ireland.

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