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CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 28. JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA, by                    
First Line: To wolfish knights with hound and hooded hawk
Last Line: The last great echoes of far greece are borne.
Subject(s): Erigena, John Scotus (810-877); Great Britain - History; Scot, John The (81-877); Eriugena, John Scotus (81-877); English History


To wolfish knights with hound and hooded hawk
He speaks in vain of Lord Christ's fair demesne,
For like a bow-shot where the larches lean
Leap hart and hind their baying pack will stalk;
With thoughts upon the hunt, they hear him talk
Of Light, whose shapes are varied as the sheen
On sunshot plumes -- blue purpling into green --
That peacocks spread along his garden walk.

Down leafy coverts sweet with briar and brake
The shaggy hunters watch the dappled herds
And heed the summons of a silver horn,
Unwitting that the clarion voice will wake
The Western Isles, that through his ringing words
The last great echoes of far Greece are borne.





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