[Ravensfort] OT, LOTM

[David Brown]

on of my fave jethro tull songs!
 
devin

--- On Thu, 9/24/09, James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com> wrote:


From: James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ravensfort] OT, LOTM
To: "Epps, David" <ICC_DCE at SHSU.EDU>
Cc: "Raven's Fort Barony of" <ravensfort at lists.ansteorra.org>
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 12:10 PM


Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green?
With his long tail hanging down.
He sits quietly under every tree ---
in the folds of his velvet gown.
He drinks from the empty acorn cup
the dew that dawn sweetly bestows.
And taps his cane upon the ground ---
signals the snowdrops it's time to grow.


Epps, David wrote:
> 
> Being Dutch Elm It should probably be… Zegen u
> 
> Charles
> 
> *From:* ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=shsu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=shsu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org] *On Behalf Of *Hoffpauir, David
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:56 AM
> *To:* Raven's Fort Barony of
> *Subject:* [Ravensfort] OT, LOTM
> 
> The Lord of the Manor would have me announce:
> 
> We had a huge Dutch Elm in the far-down yard covered with climbing fig. It had a face
> 
> attached to it made from bits of mortar formed into eyes and lids and a brow. It had a
> 
> mouth, with fleshy lips and a big toothy smile. It also had a nose, just like your nose,
> 
> only bigger. Framed in the climbing fig, I'd often think of the Great Mythical Hunter Herne,
> 
> from Celtic lore, or his more familiar incarnation, The Green Man.
> 
> The other night, in the middle of the night, for no apparent reason at all, the great
> 
> tree broke off across the trunk about six feet up or four inches below Herne's chin.
> 
> All was quiet and still. One pop, and a pause... Then another "POP!" ...and a long
> 
> pregnant pause... Then with a crash that echoed out and down all this rolling valley's
> 
> miles, the great tree fell.
> 
> I won't mention much on all the domestic frenzy which ensued from two adults and two
> 
> dogs, all lying in bed together, in the dead, pitch dark of a rural country night, as
> 
> all scrambled for what each considered to be their own notion of "safety." It was a
> 
> tangled mess of carbon based life forms, to say the least, but the tree fell far enough
> 
> away that none was harmed.
> 
> The next morning when we looked, Herne's eyes and mouth remained in place. His toothy
> 
> smile askew and now parallel with the ground. His eyes were a wee bit kilter, with a
> 
> crossed look and crumpled brow like that of a goat that had eaten something bitter. The
> 
> nose was gone. It lay in the grass some distance away, nostrils up, and backwards,
> 
> flared and full of saw dust. We surmise, after eighty years of gnats and flies and ant
> 
> trails, of tickly squirrel tails and woodpecker pecks, dust and saw dust, and pollen
> 
> and other things blown in on the air, that the great tree had simply sneezed...
> 
> Bless you, Herne. Thanks for missing the house.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> DSD
> 
> David R. Hoffpauir
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