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TO APRIL, by                    
First Line: I am pagan, so are you
Last Line: You are pagan, so am I.
Subject(s): Paganism & Pagans


I am pagan, so are you.
We are pagan through and through.
Some unshriven gypsy strain
Latent through the years has lain
Dormant, smouldering, alive;
Curse that priest could never shrive.

We have lived in other climes,
Lived and died full many times;
Dwelt with Isis, body-free,
Pagans still -- eternally.
Suns and seasons serve their turn,
Pagan fires forever burn.

Spirit held by spirit hands
Danced in thought, so spirit bands;
Waltzed into the here and now --
Ask me not, I know not how.
This I glean from vale and hill:
You and I are pagan still.

We have danced to rites of Set,
Dimly I remember yet:
Wild the music, mad the dance,
Great the gods of circumstance
Ruling water, earth and sky --
You are pagan, so am I.





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