From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: more on Merlin (Taliesin)
Date: 11 Oct 92 15:16:00 GMT

A "transformational poem" from The Book of Taliesin, a 13th century 
Welsh manuscript.  Translated by Patrick K. Ford.

- Peggy -
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                THE ARMY OF THE TREES    

	I was in many shapes before I was released:
	I was a slender, enchanted sword -- I believe that it was done.
	I was raindrops in the air, I was stars' beam;
	I was a word in letters, I was a book in origin;
	I was lanterns of light for a year and a half;
	I was a bridge that stretched over sixty estuaries;
	I was a path, I was an eagle, I was a coracle in seas;
	I was a bubble in beer, I was a drop in a shower;
	I was a sword in hand, I was a shield in battle.
	I was a string in a harp enchanted nine years, in the water as foam;
	I was a spark in fire, I was wood in a bonfire;
	I am not one who does not sing; I have sung since I was small.