Time Has Told Me ~ (Taliesin's Song)
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"I am Taliesin. I sing perfect meter,
Which will last to the end of the world.
My patron is Elphin...
I know why there is an echo in a hollow;
why silver gleames; why breath is black; why liver is bloody;
why a cow has horns; why a woman is affectionate;
why milk is white; why holly is green;
why a kid is bearded; why the cow-parsnip is hollow;
why brine is salt; why ale is bitter;
why the linnet is green and berries red;
why a cuckoo complains; why it sings;
I know where the cuckoos of summer are in winter.
I know what beast there are at the bottom of the sea;
How many spears in battle; how many drops in a shower;
why a river droown Pharaoh’s people;
why fishes have scales,
why a white swan has black feet...
I have been a blue salmon,
I have been a dog, a stag, a roebuck on the mountain,
A stock, a spade, an axe in the hand,
A stallion, a bull, a buck,
A grain which grew on a hill,
I was reaped, and placed in a oven,
I fell to the ground when I was beeing roasted
And a hen swallowed me.
Foe nine nights I was in her crop.
I have been dead I have been allive,
I am Taliesin."
Taliesin's Song
Anonymous, thirteenth-century, translated by Sir Ifor Williams.
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