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The Wife Of Llew

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And Gwydion said to Math, when it was Spring:     "Come now and let us make a wife for Llew."     And so they broke broad boughs yet moist with dew,     And in a shadow made a magic ring:     They took the violet and the meadow-sweet     To form her pretty face, and for her feet     They built a mound of daisies on a wing,     And for her voice they made a linnet sing     In the wide poppy blowing for her mouth.     And over all they chanted twenty hours.     And Llew came singing from the azure south     And bore away his wife of birds and flowers.

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