For Poets Pamphleteers and Anarchists

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Tuesday October 01, 2002 15:53

by in memory of Christopher Daybell - Poets, anarchists and pamphleteers

For poets pamphleteers and anarchists who stand upon the street and rant and charm and remember. without having to find an electricity outlet.

Three little songs to share.
The first´s title translated to english is
"The Basque country"

the first line is
"All the colours of green"

the first line of the third stanza is
"and water is always life"

El Pais Basc

Tots els colors del verdsota un cel de plom
que el sol vol trencar.
ots els colors del verd
en aquell mes de maig.

Tots els colors del verd
sota un cel ben tancat.

I l´aigua és sempre vida
entre muntanyes i valls.
I l´aigua és sempre vida
sota la grisor del cel.

Tots els colors del verd
en aquell mes de mai.

És tan vell i arrelat,
an antic com el temps
el dolor d´aquella ent
És an vell i arrelat
com ots els colos del verd
en aquell mes de maig.

Tots els colors del verd,
gora gora, diuen fort
la gent, la terra i el mar
allá al Pais Basc.

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For some reason it reminds me of:
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Duilleoga ar snámh,
Donn, geal is rua,
Ar abhainn na Life
ag seoladh le sruth.

Spréigh siad brat glas
Ar bharra na gcrann,
Ar fuaid cuibhreann is coillte,
I bfhad, i bfhad ó shin ann.

Duilleoga ar snámh,
Lá coech fómhair,
Ag iompar na háilleachta
Trí shráideanna dobhair.
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This first text is by Raimon (1940-)
a folk singer of Catalúnya
written in 1967

The second text is by
Séamas Ó Néill (1910-1981)

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LITERA SCRIPTA MANET_: LUCAS A NON LUCENDO :

which literally means; THE WRITTEN LETTER REMAINS
: A LIGHT FROM ITS NOT SHINING:

;(The word ´lucas´, a grove is derived from ´lucere´ to shine because the rays of the sun
are supposed rarely to penetrate through its folliage. The phrase is generally used to mark an
"absurd or discordant etymology".

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WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY
ECHELON
FAILED

it could not see the wood for the trees.

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ALL you are left with
is a single question;

At which TREE do we stop?