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    Merlin's Youth
    Merlin's Youth
    Merlin's Youth
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    Merlin's Youth

    By George Parker Bidder

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    Merlin's Youth' is a poignant poem written from the point of view of Merlin, King Arthur's wizard, as he looks back on his lost youth. He remembers his first love, Yberha, who taught him the wizarding arts and how he lost her.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateMar 3, 2016
    ISBN9781681465326
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      Merlin's Youth - George Parker Bidder

      Merlin’s Youth

      George Parker Bidder

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-68146-532-6

      Table of Contents

      First Part

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      Second Part

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      Third Part

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      The Prayer of the Priests

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      First Part

      1

      A lad I was, dark-haired and dark of eye,

      Ever the first to court a danger shown,

      Ever the last to lay my courage down

      In face of man or sprite. Strife then ran high

      Betwixt us and the strangers; and the land

      Stirred with a thrill it could not understand.

      For ‘twas the tie that bound mother and child,

      And strangers would possess her bosom bare,

      And strangers batten on our woodland air,

      And strangers trample on our mountains wild;

      And so the earth stirred in stern motherhood,

      And all her children knew in their blood.

      Slight-limbed was I, nor challenged feats of strength:

      My great-thewed cousins hurled the massy rock,

      And flung the fir-tree that ten winters’

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