Feasting

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By Patience Gray

Published 1986

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For de la bella caiba Out from the fine cage
fugge lo lusignolo flies the nightingale
’And then they went on to Harddlech, and they sat them down and began to regale them with meat and drink; and even as they began to eat and drink there came three birds and began to sing them a certain song, and of all the songs they had ever heard each one was unlovely compared with that. And far must they look out over the deep, yet was it as clear to them as if they were close to them; and at that feasting they were seven years.’