# Quote — Taliesin, The Book of Taliesin

> Eagle of the land, extensive thy glance.
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> I would have requested an active courser
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> Of vigorous trot, the price of the spoil of Taliesin.
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> One is the violent course on the bottom and the summit,
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> One is the gift of a baron to a lord.
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> One is the herd of stags in their fight.
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> One is the wolf not covetous of broom,
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> One is the country where a son is born,
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> And of one form and one sound is the battle-place of warriors.

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- Book: [The Book of Taliesin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taliesin/the-book-of-taliesin.md)
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## More from this book

> 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!

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

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> 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.

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