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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Feb 20, 2019, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It is the wrong phase of moon right now, but I am still rolling the   
   moon rock like Sisyphus.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “With light in my head/With you in my arms   
   I wish I was the brakeman/On a hurtlin fevered train " (The Waterboys)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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