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   From: Your_Colonel@usa.com   
      
   On 6/25/2017 8:58 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > The Silver Bough thumb   
   >   
   > Once in 1996 or 1997 I thumbed at random a book on Scottish folklore called   
   > The Silver Bough Vol. 1 by F. Marian McNeill. It came out to a page with this   
   > poem on it:   
   >   
   > Ri faicinn domh na gealaich uir,   
   > Is duth domh mo shuil a thogail.   
   > Is duth domh ma ghlun a leagail,   
   > Is duth domh mo cheann a bhogadh,   
   >   
   > Toir cliu dhuit fein, a re nan iul,   
   > Gum faca mi thu a rithist,   
   > Gum faca mi a ghealach ur,   
   > Ailleagan iuil na slighe.   
   >   
   > Is iomadh neach a chaidh a null   
   > Eadar uine an da ghealaich,   
   > Ged tha mise a' mealtainn fuinn,   
   > A re nan re 's nam beannachd!   
   >   
   > which translates as:   
   >   
   > When I see the new moon,   
   > It becomes me to life mine eye,   
   > It becomes me to bend my knee,   
   > It becomes me to bow my head.   
   >   
   > Giving thee praise, thou moon of guidance,   
   > That I have seen thee again,   
   > That I have seen the new moon,   
   > The lovely leader of the way.   
   >   
   > Many a one has passed beyond   
   > In the time between the two moons,   
   > Though I am still enjoying earth,   
   > Thou moon of moons and of blessings!   
   >   
   > Now in that I think new moon refers not to the modern new moon or dark of   
   > moon but the early waxing crescent moon or first horn of moon. For a while I   
   > thought that significant to me since I thought a new age would begin in early   
   > waxing moon or I would be released from my low years in early waxing moon   
   > (and that could still be true since I am not, June 2017, yet out of the low   
   > years). Another interpretation is that it could be about having gone through   
   > an intense waning crescent high and now being back to normalcy for early   
   > waxing crescent. But really I just found it interesting and plan to research   
   > its signifance and Scottish lunar traditions further in future and take the   
   > thumbing as a sign I should do so. I would also like to know who the author   
   > was and if the author was similar to me at all.   
   >   
   David, sometimes I write in Latin, when the mood strikes me that is.   
      
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