# Taliesin

- Quotes: 81
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## Books

- [The Book of Taliesin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taliesin/the-book-of-taliesin.md) — 81 quotes

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> Ye have committed wickedness
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> Against the Creator.
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> A hundred thousand angels
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> Are to me witnesses,
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> Who came to conduct me
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> After my hanging,
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> When hanging cruelly,
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> Myself to deliver me
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> In heaven there was trembling
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> When I had been hung.
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> When I cried out Eli!

> Thrice three protections,
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> Returning to the old places,
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> With a steed used to the field.

> To my deprivation, to my sorrow, sinew was brave.
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> The world would not be if not for my offspring.
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> I am a bard to be praised. The unskilful
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> May he be possessed by the ravens and eagle and bird of wrath.

> I have been a sow, I have been a buck,
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> I have been a sage, I have been a snout,
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> I have been a horn, I have been a wild sow,
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> I have been a shout in battle.
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> I have been a torrent on the slope,
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> I have been a wave on the extended shore.
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> I have been the light sprinkling of a deluge,
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> I have been a cat with a speckled head on three trees.
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> I have been a circumference, I have been a head.
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> A goat on an elder-tree.
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> I have been a crane well filled, a sight to behold.
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> Very ardent the animals of Morial,
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> They kept a good stock.
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> Of what is below the air, say the hateful men,
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> Too many do not live, of those that know me.

> It broke out with matchless fury.
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> The rapid vehement fire.
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> Him we praise above the earth,
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> Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn.
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> Above the high gale,
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> Higher than every cloud.
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> Great his animal.

> '''The value of my cry great will be its advantage to degrees.
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> The chief of men, shield of warriors.
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> The extensive booty of the ashen shaft is my fair Awen.
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> A shield before a prince, bright his smile,
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> Heroic, aspiring, the most heroic is Urien

> Do not thy passions counteract
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> What thy lips utter?
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> Thy going in thy course into valleys,
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> Dark without lights.
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> And mine were his words.
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> And mine were his languages.

> Those that placed me on the cross
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> I knew when young.
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> That drove me on the tree,
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> My head hung down.
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> Stretched were my two feet,
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> So sad their destiny.
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> Stretched with extreme pain
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> The bones of my feet.
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> Stretched were my two arms,
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> Their burden will not be.
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> Stretched were my two shoulders,
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> So diligently it was done.
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> Stretched were the nails,
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> Within my heart.
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> Stretched was the spiking,
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> Between my two eyes.
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> Thick are the holes
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> Of the crown of thorns in my head.
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> The lance was struck
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> And my side was pierced.
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> It will be struck to you also,
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> As your right hand (struck me).
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> To you there will be no forgiveness,
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> For piercing me with spears.
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> And the Ruler we knew not
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> When thou wert hung.

> There was a calling on the Creator,
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> Upon Christ for causes,
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> Until when the Eternal
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> Should deliver those whom he had made.
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> The Lord answered them,
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> Through language and elements:
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> Take the forms of the principal trees,
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> Arranging yourselves in battle array,
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> And restraining the public.

> A wave do ye displace,
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> A shield do ye extend
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> To the travelling woe,
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> And violent exertion through grief.
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> And inflaming through fury
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> Between heaven and earth.

> When the trees were enchanted,
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> In the expectation of not being trees,
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> The trees uttered their voices
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> From strings of harmony,
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> The disputes ceased.
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> Let us cut short heavy days,
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> A female restrained the din.
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> She came forth altogether lovely.
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> The head of the line, the head was a female.
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> The advantage of a sleepless cow
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> Would not make us give way.
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> The blood of men up to our thighs,
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> The greatest of importunate mental exertions
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> Sported in the world.
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> And one has ended
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> From considering the deluge,
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> And Christ crucified
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> And the day of judgement near at hand.

> The praising thy mercy.
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> There hath not been here;
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> O supreme Ruler;
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> There hath not been; there will not be,
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> One so good as the Lord.
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> There hath not been born in the day of the people
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> Any one equal to God.
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> And no one will acknowledge
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> Any one equal to him.
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> Above heaven, below heaven,
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> There is no Ruler but he.
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> Above sea, below sea,
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> He created us.