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3/21/2016 11:11:25 AM
Marc Radzyner Posts: 1
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thelisteners hear, in sympathy, a poem pronounced inManx or heed a highland lay in Cumbrian. . . A thousandmore, erased from earth, live here, in this glumplace, this encampment, ouside the streetsand gold, the city built foursquare . . .songs sung in Ligurian are rocky, like the hills of Italy. Before roads crisscrossed fieldsand aqueducts rose up, the sound of earth, of bristledboars could be sensed in Etruscan.. . The tolerant eye of God, whospoke the word and it was so, sees and is movedand feels. . . and hear their lament for thelanguages reduced to dust—and shares it,since he knows He will not ever hear His praiseagain sung out in Gothic, Aramaic, or Biloxi or in Ancient Nubian. edited by mradzyner on 3/21/2016
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