Old Forms
Sore an injury was struck,
when from a wounded desert shore,
a bloodied cross, and Roman book
displaced an island people’s lore
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Where once from out the wells and springs
in holy fire, for prophets bloomed,
the forms, revealing hallowed things-
oppressed by an imported doom
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The forms, forgot, long buried deep,
or rendered dark in foreign names,
obscured, yet still unforced in sleep,
as dream-
awakes the ancient flame
They awaken, Ross. This is so good! 👏✨
It never made any sense to me, that Ireland was the only country in the world where christianity was introduced without the sword. I don't believe it. History is written by the winners.