# Quote — Taliesin, The Book of Taliesin

> 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!

- 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

> 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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> 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.

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