‘To the old Gods’

Images by John Mowat

The standing stones of Stenness, In the foreground is a close up of this massive Neolithic stone with its slanting top, in the background are two more of the stones. The ground is covered in snow
Image credit John Mowat

TO THE OLD GODS

Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long

Through time and never found eternity,

Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill,

You should have fled our ever-dying song

The mound, the well, and the green trysting tree,

They have forgotten, yet you linger still

EDWIN MUIR

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