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I reread "Rewards and Fairies" yesterday, and

affabletoaster posted "Sea Fever", so the combination of Kipling + sea inspires me to post this. I loved this poem when I was a child (and still do); was plainly a morbid little thing - but I think it's the magnificent play of sound (: ( the sound of the oar-blades falling hollow )

I have just read two seperate thirteenth century Middle High German poems which refer to Mary as the weasel who bore the ermine (Christ) who killed the snake (Satan). I can't help thinking a mongoose would be somehow more impressive. Worryingly, I also find myself musing over an exegesis of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi as Christian allegory (only I can't work out where to fit in Darzi - John the Baptist? - or Chundra, who never came out into the corner of the room).

My brain is evidently on crack. Incense-scented crack. Or maybe it's too much batshit mediaeval poetry. Either way, not good.

I can see why the cult of Our Lady The Blessed Weasel never caught on, though.†

† ~~Hey, maybe this proves that Voldemort will actually be destroyed by a Weasley?~~ Somebody kill me now....

Current Music: Darzi's triumph song over Nag

Today the Anglican Communion commemorates that extrordinarily tough bishop, S. Wilfred. I've always felt a great deal of affection for Wilfred, partly because of childhood visits to Ripon, but, I'm afraid, chiefly because of his appearance in Kipling's Rewards and Fairies, a splendid book. In honour of this, I thought I'd post the poem about 'Eddi, the priest of Wilfred' (really Wilf's biographer, Eddi Stephanus) which charmed me as a child.

( I know it is not Christmas, but humour me... )

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