Though it shall have happened three thousand year

[sovay]

I'm off to Providence. I leave you with two songs for the solstice, both taken from Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) and set by Peter Bellamy.

Peter Bellamy, "Puck's Song"

And see you, after rain, the trace
Of mound and ditch and wall?
O that was a Legion's camping-place,
When Caesar sailed from Gaul.

And see you marks that show and fade,
Like shadows on the Downs?
O they are the lines the Flint Men made,
To guard their wondrous towns.

"Oak, Ash & Thorn (A Tree Song)"

Oh, do not tell the Priest our plight,
Or he would call it a sin;
But—we have been out in the woods all night,
A-conjuring Summer in!
And we bring you news by word of mouth—
Good news for cattle and corn—
Now is the Sun come up from the South,
With Oak and Ash and Thorn!

Summer!

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Nice :-)

Have a great time in Providence!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Hope you have a wonderful time in Providence.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Not a comment so much as a smile. Enjoy the solstice.

[sovay]

Enjoy the solstice.

I did.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I hear you explored an abandoned amusement park. This should be read with the appropriate amount of jealousy.

[sovay]

This should be read with the appropriate amount of jealousy.

It was a small and modest amusement park to begin with, if that helps . . .

[sovay]

I hear you explored an abandoned amusement park.

Caitlín has posted photographs.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I saw those. Good on you both for staying on the path. That place looks like its no joke.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Oh, you've reminded me that I have to find some Kipling. I'm sure I have something on my shelves, but what would you recommend for someone who has read very little of him?

[sovay]

I'm sure I have something on my shelves, but what would you recommend for someone who has read very little of him?

Hmm. As a small child, I encountered him first through The Jungle Book (1894), The Just So Stories (1902), and Kim (1901), but I would probably now recommend you start with Puck of Pook's Hill (1906), Rewards and Fairies (1910), and the Barrack-Room Ballads (1892). I've had great difficulty finding his work properly collected in used book stores—it's like E.T.A. Hoffmann, mostly what you find are things like bests-of—but libraries should be good about him.