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bought a book about the American Revolution (1776) as told from English point of view. She says it is "Quite interesting!"
... still can't quite belive it happened?
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I saw magic on a green country road --
That old woman, a bag of sticks her load,
Blackly down to her thin feet a fringed shawl,
A rosary of bone on her horned hand,
A flight of curlews scribing by her head,
And ashtrees combing with their frills her hair.
Her eyes, wet sunken holes pierced by an awl,
Must have deciphered her adoring land:
And curlews, no longer lean birds, instead
Become ten scarlet comets in the air.
Some incantation from her canyoned mouth,
Irish, English, blew frost along the ground,
And even though the wind was from the South
The ashleaves froze without an ashleaf sound.
Michael Hartnett (from The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry)
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