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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Jul 09, 2005, 06:35
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Both excellent Hob - thank you (and duly added to growing stack).
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nigelswift 8112 posts |
Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:54
Jul 09, 2005, 07:52
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"They become like they behold! Yet immense in strength and power, In awful pomp and gold, in all the precious unhewn stones of Eden They build a stupendous Building on the Plain of Salisbury, with chains Of rocks round London Stone, of Reasonings, of unhewn Demonstrations In labyrinthine arches (Mighty Urizen the Architect) thro' which The heavens might revolve and Eternity be bound in their chain. Labour unparallell'd! a wondrous rocky World of cruel destiny, Rocks piled on rocks reaching the stars, stretching from pole to pole. The Building is Natural Religion & its Altars Natural Morality, A building of eternal death, whose proportions are eternal despair."
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Jul 09, 2005, 10:04
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Thank you for reminding me of that Nigel. As with most I was saddened and sickened by Thursday's carnage in London; and if asked to express my feelings on philosophical 'buildings' of hatred, death and destruction perhaps Blake's last line will suffice - "A building of eternal death, whose proportions are eternal despair." And in a more defiant if not in a lighter mood - "All things begin and end in Albion's ancient Druid rocky shore. But now the Starry Heavens are fled from the mighty limbs of Albion."
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Jul 09, 2005, 12:41
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David Dimbleby's excellent series <b>A Picture of Britain</b> concludes tomorrow (10 July) at 9pm with, "A journey from Stonehenge in Wiltshire to Cornwall, via Snowdonia in Wales, encompasses the land of Thomas Hardy's tragic love affairs, Dylan Thomas's idiosyncratic poems, the legend of King Arthur and the spectacular mountain paintings of Richard Wilson."* * Radio Times. 9-15 July, page 68.
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nigelswift 8112 posts |
Jul 09, 2005, 13:01
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Richard Wilson is God http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=16242&tabview=image
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Jul 09, 2005, 13:14
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Oooooh!
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Wiggy 1696 posts |
Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:54
Jul 20, 2005, 13:35
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....Then up the hill that the Wan Dyke rings Where the sarsen stones stand grand like kings .............. Seven Sarsens of granite grim As he ran them by they looked at him From "Reynard the Fox"(extract) by John Masefield - early 1920's.
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Jul 21, 2005, 23:26
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Thanks Wiggy - just read your great little snippet from <b>Reynard the Fox</b> and it's now duly added to the growing stack of contributions to <b>An Anthology of Megalithic Poems</b>. Are there any more out there? Either your poems or those of others?
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Moth 5236 posts |
Edited Oct 09, 2006, 10:55
Jul 21, 2005, 23:38
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Ayup Littlestone Haven't really been following this thread & frankly can't be arsed to wade through it (!!!!) but I assume you've got Jane's from her profile page? Just in case, here it is (apologies if you've already got it): Big old rocks I find appealling Their secrets they are not revealing Some are chambers, some are tombs Hidden in valleys and in combes Some are said to act like clocks With shadows cast out from their rocks I like the way they just survive When I visit, I feel alive So I chase my rocks around the maps Round England, Ireland and France, perhaps But there ain't nothin' that I liked so much As to see the Hunebedden, dem is Dutch. love Moth
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Littlestone 5386 posts |
Jul 21, 2005, 23:50
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Yep, thanks Moth (I do have that one of Jane's). Also have a rather lovely poem by a certain 'Swift' (which appeared elsewhere on TMA some time ago but which I think now needs reposting again here (permission to post milord ;-)
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