“I will declare when I am in the gravel,
From the maintenance of gifts,
From being numbered, from going to be a martyr
In the reckoning of Saint Segerno.
From a word when sin may be to me,
Let there be no sigh from those that hear me.”

—  Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons

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