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from: "The Song of Aberdeen Aengus"

Though I am tired with gardening

In hollow lands and hilly lands,

I’ll find that the Infanta’s come,

And kiss her lips, and take her hands;

And then from my small hazel-tree

We’ll pluck, till time and times are done,

The silver nutmeg of the moon,

The golden medlar of the sun.

 

 

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  • Vera Rich
    August 7, 2008

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    Oh YES... This "pairing" was an absolute MUST.. the rhyme and the model for the remake fit together so beautifully...

    and the "nut-tree" becoming specifically a hazel is so very Yeatsian.


  • Edna Sweetlove
    July 28, 2008

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    Sadly I am out of my depth here. Yeats is it? Ah well, I like a nice drop of Irish whiskey or a good gobble from a Dublin hoor, but I have to wallow in my own ignorance on this one.


    • Mairi bheag gold member
      July 29, 2008
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      Yeats, yes. Sadly there are many people on AP who do not know what a yeat is.


  • Amera gold member
    July 28, 2008

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    What more could one want? Perfect meter and rhyme with brilliant imagery and metaphor. Yay! Go sis!

    Love,
    Amera♥


  • Keith
    July 26, 2008

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    You've done one of my favourites. I read Ray Bradbury's Golden Apples of the Sun before I went to Billy Butler Y. This contest gets nuttier by the moment. We all must be oot of oor trees!
    On a roll? Ye've swallowed the dice!


    • Mairi bheag gold member
      July 26, 2008
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      Eh ken ye're fae Ebberdin, see!

      Aye, we're a' outeh oor trees!

  • Bad Bill
    July 26, 2008
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    Impeccably Yeatsian and even, as Jeff says, "not bad."

    Good one,
    Bill


  • cricketjeff gold member
    July 26, 2008

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    You seem to be on a roll with these

    Have a genuine, original, never bettered and oft imitated

    Not Bad


    • Mairi bheag gold member
      July 26, 2008
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      If it's a roll, surely it's never-buttered, not never-bettered?

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