"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

01 May 2010

Happy May Day


Have you ever stood in the April wood
And called the new year in?
While the phantoms of three thousand years
Fly as the dead leaves spin?
There's a snap in the grass behind your feet
And a tap upon your shoulder.
And the thin wind crawls along your neck
It's just the old gods getting older.
And the kestral drops like a fall of shot
And the red cloud hanging high
Come a Beltane.

Happy old new year to you and yours.
The sun's up for one more day, to be sure.
Play it out gladly, for your card's marked again.

- Ian Anderson

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