A week or so ago I bought, for the disastrous sum of 50p, an ancient book of Welsh poetry . It's called Y Pren Pêr and it's by Mary A. Richard. It was published in 1932 !!!! Crumbs ( = briwsion in Welsh.) But there there's also a few English poems in it.... they're bloody awful. Ace . And one of them is about The Nightingale. It's excruciatingly, toe-curlingly awful. It confirms totally and for all time my basic Rule of Life .... " All Bird Poetry Is Crap. " Here it is ..... try spotting the really really terrible bits from now ... and I bet you'll think ..... he's made this up like he did all those others by that Wavely Newt etc ... but no ...this is a real one. Cripes...... COMPOSED AFTER LISTENING TO THE NIGHTINGALE by Mary A. Richard Nightingale, sweetie Singing so sweetly Out in the forest height ; Warbling and singing With thy voice ringing Beautiful songs in the night. Oh! how I love thee, Dear little birdie, Singing thy songs of glee ; Praising thy Maker And thy Caretaker - Thou art so sweet to me. Guarding Thy birdie, And singing thy best, Keeping close vigil over her nest; Cheering the night With all thy might, To Thy belovéd and best. [ I think you should have a little break at this point to calm down ...] Father and Mother, One for the other, Never to disagree; Sharing, preparing, With her in bearing Little ones on the tree. Singing with power hour by hour in that moonlight night ! Filling with wonder Those who stood under Trees on that night so bright. Woeful and loathful while feeling so joyful Were we to part with thee ? Ever and ever Shall we remember That glee on Grove Farm tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now that was the most dreadful crap I have ever, ever read. Talk about being bereft of ideas, sense,truth, brain ...everything. No parody of mine could beat that. I might have go though. I'm ruthless, me. What we need now, apart from some way of erasing that heap of shite from our brains, is music. Something grand, beautiful, calming.... yes, it's The Mighty Fall and "Hit the North " ....
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