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Gleision - a poem by Gwyneth Lewis - The World This Weekend, BBC Radio 4

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almost 2 years ago
suttonnick

Gleision


       Tops of trees, their roots in seams
       Of dark. King under mountain.

       The cave's an open mouth whose words
       Are men who work their mountain.

       Pine, larch and oak. Don't touch the bell
       That tolls from out the mountain

       Or he will stir, and miners die
       Like light inside a mountain.

       His breath is black and marks each face
       That seeks beneath the mountain.

       Leaves drift down, but they won't heal
       The sentence of the mountain.
   
       It's time to lose all hope and seal
       The grave. King lies in his mountain.

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