# Quote — Taliesin, The Book of Taliesin

> The rock wave-surrounded, by great arrangement,
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> Will convey for us a defence, a protection from the enemy.
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> The rock of the chief proprietor, the head of tranquillity.
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> The intoxication of meads will cause us to speak.
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> I am a cell, I am a cleft, I am a restoration,
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> I am the depository of song; I am a literary man;
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> I love the high trees, that afford a protection above,
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> And a bard that composes, without earning anger;
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> I love not him that causes contention;
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> He that speaks ill of the skilful shall not possess mead.

- Author: [Taliesin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/taliesin.md)
- 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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