Yep around 1400 years according to the message sent out by the cleric
officiating today. But no one knows. Others say less. I say more, but only
from perversity. He talks about Elid meeting Olaf Trygvasson; but there's
only folk stories for that. Anyway ta, glad you like his my our couplet
L
On 8 August 2013 16:29, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Oh, that final couplet, L. Old E still finding things to say...
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> Doug
> On 2013-08-08, at 7:24 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Happy St Elid's day everyone. The boat to St Helen's Island leaves from
> St
> > Mary's Quay, Scilly at 2:30 pm.
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> > I'm not even on the archipelago myself; but offer this poem by Elid
> which I
> > have written
> >
> > L
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> > Soon we cannot cut it; becoming dull:
> >
> > our teeth our brains,
> >
> > the whetstone put away
> >
> > and out of reach;
> >
> > or the effort so dispiriting
> >
> > we cooperate with our confusion.
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> > Things stay complicated unmanaged incomprehensible.
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> > No we say no you’ve given me too much
> >
> > to the empty sky, or to a deaf guard, or ourselves;
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> > and what had once sprung
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> > back or just sliced through
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> > now wobbles in its poor grasp covering
> >
> > as the bundle bunches itself into a slot,
> >
> > an old document no one quite understands,
> >
> > half-forgotten but not circulated yet
> >
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> Douglas Barbour
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