From *Elidius on Ennor*
When loud music from Heaven ends mere time,
each here might know how well we have behaved
in the mind of God. I hope, just then, to feel
a growing joy; yet, in my mortal gut,
I have little but dread that I shall start
in and throughout my emotions, to die
as I perceive the first notes of the sound:
that condemnatory melody in Love
[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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