{"id":59,"date":"2023-01-25T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:09:35","slug":"carol-of-birds-beasts-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/25\/carol-of-birds-beasts-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol of Birds, Beasts and Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cock-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"127\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Christus natus est!<\/em> the cock <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Christ is born<\/em><br \/>\nCarols on the morning dark.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/raven.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"87\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Quando?<\/em> croaks the raven stiff <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">When?<\/em><br \/>\nFreezing on the broken cliff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/crow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"46\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hoc nocte<\/em>, replies the crow <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">This night<\/em><br \/>\nBeating high above the snow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ox.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ubi? Ubi?<\/em> booms the ox <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Where?<\/em><br \/>\nFrom its cavern in the rocks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-95\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sheep.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Bethlehem<\/em>, then bleats the sheep<br \/>\nHuddled on the winter steep.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/hare.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Quomodo?<\/em> the brown hare clicks <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">How?<\/em><br \/>\nChattering among the sticks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/wren.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Humiliter<\/em>, the careful wren <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Humbly<\/em><br \/>\nThrills upon the cold hedge-stone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/coot-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"57\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cur? Cur?<\/em> sounds the coot <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Why?<\/em><br \/>\nBy the iron river-root.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/thrush.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"79\" height=\"92\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Propter homine<\/em>, the thrush <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">For the sake of man<\/em><br \/>\nSings on the sharp holly-bush.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/chough.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"87\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Cui? Cui?<\/em> rings the chough <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">To whom?<\/em><br \/>\nOn the strong, sea-haunted bluff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/lamb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"81\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mary! Mary!<\/em> calls the lamb<br \/>\nFrom the quiet of the womb.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woodpecker2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"66\" height=\"57\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Praeterea ex quo?<\/em> cries <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Who else?<\/em><br \/>\nThe woodpecker in pallid skies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/shire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"83\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph<\/em>, breathes the heavy shire<br \/>\nWarming in its own blood-fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Humes_owl2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ultime ex quo?<\/em> the owl <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Who above all?<\/em><br \/>\nSolemnly begins to call.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/stare.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"53\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>De Deo<\/em>, the little stare <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Of God<\/em><br \/>\nWhistles on the hardening air.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/snipe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"62\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Pridem? Pridem?<\/em> the jack snipe <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Long ago?<\/em><br \/>\nFrom the stiff grass starts to pipe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/fox.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"83\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sic et non<\/em>, answers the fox <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Yes and no<\/em><br \/>\nTiptoeing the bitter lough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/robin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"86\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Quomodo hoc scire potest?<\/em> <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">How do I know this?<\/em><br \/>\nBoldly flutes the robin-redbreast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mouase.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"79\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Illo in eandem<\/em>, squeaks <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">By going there<\/em><br \/>\nThe mouse within the barley-sack.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/daw.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"101\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Quae sarcinae?<\/em> asks the daw <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">What luggage?<\/em><br \/>\nSwaggering from head to claw.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ass.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Nulla res<\/em>, replies the ass <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">None<\/em><br \/>\nBearing on its back the cross.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/gull.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"94\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Quantum pecuniae?<\/em> shrills <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">How much money?<\/em><br \/>\nThe wandering gull about the hills.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"110\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ne nummum quidem<\/em>, the rook <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Not a penny<\/em><br \/>\nCaws across the rigid brook.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/stan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"157\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Nulla resne?<\/em> barks the dog <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Nothing at all?<\/em><br \/>\nBy the crumbling fire-log.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dove.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"53\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Nil nisi cor amans<\/em>, the dove <em style=\"color: #888888; float: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Only a loving heart<\/em><br \/>\nMurmurs from its house of love.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114\" src=\"https:\/\/bowmangraphics.ie\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Venus_Anadyomene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Gloria in Excelsis! Then<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Man is God and God is Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-right: 20%;\">Charles Causley (1917\u20132003)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christus natus est! the cock Christ is born Carols on the morning dark. Quando? croaks the raven stiff When? Freezing on the broken cliff. Hoc nocte, replies the crow This night Beating high above the snow. Ubi? Ubi? booms the ox Where? From its cavern in the rocks. 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