L thanks enjoyed that has that sort of riddling feel-do you dance there or
fiddle?P
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Subject: Boscawen un
nineteen a round
and one in the middle
nineteen unsound
but one with a fiddle
and they then each give voice
and get back their voices
heavy stone all
changing as the weather
nineteen alone
and one, quite together
*Boscawen-un*
[Boscawen un has been translated as *the pasture of the farmstead at the
elderberry tree*]
[*Boscawen un * is a bronze age stone circle in the far west of Cornwall In
Christian centuries the stones have been associated variously - either the
work of Satan, or some apparatus of Satan; or the bodies turned to stone of
dancers breaking the Sabbath... In the 1850s employers in west Cornwall were
complaining that young employees had not turned up but were dancing at a
nearby stone circle. At such dances, the musician would stand by the central
stone when such remained, as it does at B U. It would be called the daunce
men.... men here is Cornish for stone. There you are: am intro longer than
the poem]
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