“Songs and minstrels.
And the hymns of angels,
Will raise from the graves,
They will entreat from the beginning.”

— Taliesin

Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
Context: Songs and minstrels.
And the hymns of angels,
Will raise from the graves,
They will entreat from the beginning.
They will entreat together publicly,
On so great a destiny.
Those whom the sea has destroyed
Will make a great shout,
At the time when cometh
He, that will separate them.

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Taliesin 102

Welsh bard 534–599

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