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  • A poem that still rings as true as when it was written. The last two stanzas in particular hit home, and hit hard. About Palestine, obviously, but never stated, yet it has overtones of more recent US imperialism.

  • on Eleu Loro by Sir Walter Scott, on May 30, 2004
    Don't write them like this any more. A great, tender dirgeful lament. You can hear the keening on the wind.

  • Not just a good old poem - a great song, and immensely stirring too. Since Scott was a collector in his day - one like Burns, who would alter, amend, improve what he found - I wonder if any of these words are much older, and come from the 'tradition' or from the quill of some ancient minstrel...

  • Awesome stuff. As usually happens I was looking for another poet (Stephen Spender - unusually one not among OldPoetry's voluminous archives) and came across old Shel again. Fantastic! But I doubt his work is in the public domain!