Cernunnos

This feast Cernunnos made for you

Incense peels temporary wraiths, gyring to gladetop

Deep drain circling blood thrice cough

He hath prepared it mindfully knowing all things, toward some hidden end

Past a heaving, heathen throat stings 

Deep drain toward higher purpose. 


In woods he told me 

I have seen him dancing

More often this leafless season 

Dispensing among the devoted. 


All this I tried to impart but your fearful hearts saw only hoof and horn

His emerald eye 

His briar crown

And ye forlorn. 


Night’s void zenith 

Midnight’s midnight  

Flame-crazed we few 

Petition Cernunnos.


This islet his alone 

All her fells his dominion 

Nation’s prow manned as of old, its course wed forever to his wonts. 

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