The Sword or Poison

by Carausias Arise!

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First outing for Carausias Arise! -and the last perhaps although I am looking to assemble some other tacks for a collection so, you have been warned. Nice to be offered-let the enthusiasm die out- to open for Moon Goose in Hay on Wye in July-let us see....This is the unedited desk recording (Dow Fereday, Last Track Studio, Llanon) from Saturday night, 3rd March 2022 at the inaugural (and last) Gwyl Ffynnon Sant Caron....Slightly wavering voice, put it down to my cold but generally I was happy with it, needs refining maybe.

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Fair golden Age! When milk was th’ onely food.
And cradle of the infant-world the wood
(Rock’d by the windes),

and the’ untoucht flocks did bear
Their deer young for themselves! None yet did fear
<The> sword or poison: no black thoughtes begun
“I” eclipse the light of the eternall Sun…

(repeat with emphasis)

See Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido in the seminal Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation ed., Charles Tomlinson,(OUP, Oxford, 1980), p.147f

The attentive listener will find me drift off into Henry Vaughan's The Retreat-no lyrics here as it was rather extempore.

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released April 3, 2022

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