Taliesin

Quotes

1. Twelve thousand in the convention

   Believed through the voice of John.

   They worship, they deserve a portion,

   In heaven they will not be angry.

2. 

   A pleasant virtue, extreme penance to an extreme course;

   Also pleasant, when God is delivering me.

   Pleasant, the carousal that hinders not mental exertion;

   Also pleasant, to drink together about horns.

3. 

   I will declare when I am in the gravel,

   From the maintenance of gifts,

   From being numbered, from going to be a martyr

   In the reckoning of Saint Segerno.

   From a word when sin may be to me,

   Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.

4. 

   Book-learning scarcely tells me

   Of severe afflictions after death-bed;

   And such as have heard my bardic books

   They shall obtain the region of heaven, the best of all abodes.

5. 

   Meditating were my thoughts

   On the vain poetry of the bards of Brython.

   Making the best of themselves in the chief convention.

   Enough, the care of the smith’s sledge-hammer.

   I am in want of a stick, straitened in song,

   The fold of the bards, who knows it not?

6. 

   Whence come night and flood?

   How they disappear?

   Whither flies night from day;

   And how is it not seen?

7. 

   Multitudes, of beautiful works,

   Believed, served with us.

8. 

   Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest;

   Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk.

   Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament;

   Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.

9. 

   The number of saints, a synod without desire,

   From God the divine prophesy.

   In every tongue they compose,

   About the earth they were,

   And so many wisely prophesied

   Christ, and before he was, they were.

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