Yes. When I posted that poem you wrote "Sounds like how I feel today" L
On 22 October 2014 16:25, PATRICK MCMANUS <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> "I am now almost without energy" rings a bell with me P
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> Date : 22/10/2014 - 12:17 (GMTST)
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> Subject : Elid's Den
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> *Elid's Den*
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> There is another hole. That has no name
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> of my coinage. My most secure cavity.
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> It is devoid of widely-known entrance;
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> and invisible, without openings for light:
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> I go hence during day, at gloaming times,
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> to rest myself, in a pent cist of stones,
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> out flat, walled close; under grasses, not in sight;
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> but, now and then, when horror's overly strong
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> for anyone of normal humorous bent,
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> I lie too long, spent, in my sweat, clung to
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> by the covering I'm still bearing from life;
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> what's left of a living corpse trailed by cerements.
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> Dreading discoverers' harshness, I fear me.
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> Should you stumble on the grave, look off;
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> I'd rise up soon, smelling too rank, I know,
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> for measured conversation.
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> Let me wash!
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> I would cleanse my body and my clothing.
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> Forgive the full wetness of my attire
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> if we met at such time. I could explain;
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> and yet's far better that you said no words,
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> offering greatest courtesy, being discreet,
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> chancing consideration for a man
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> who has lost the skill of acting human.
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> I do not wish it to be thus, you know,
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> remembering cold, for which I'm not prepared.
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> [Elidius is one of the names of one who may have lived at some time after
> the Roman period on Scilly, or, as it then seems to have been called,
> Ennor. There is no evidence of him apart from the earlier name of St
> Helen's island, where it is said he may have been buried, Insula Sancti
> Elidii. His feast day is 8th August. Until now he has had no hagiographer.
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> This poem, assuming it to be genuine, must be associated with the poem
> "Elid's cave" which I posted to PoetryEtc 1 October 2014 and perhaps with
> the poem "I am now almost without energy" posted 10 September]
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