| Our language of love
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| The Battle of Trees
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| We fought side by side
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| No one had more
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| Sharper consonants than you love
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| And my vowels, well, were trusted
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| First comes the birch
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| Rowan followed by the ash
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| Then through the alder she forms
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| And merges with willow
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| The hawthorn blossoms
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| As the oak guards the door
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| «She» is the hinge on which the year swings
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| He courts the lightening flash and her
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| Summoning the spirits
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| Through incantations
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| You said, «that Thunder God
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| Seems to have
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| In our enemy, his own laureate»
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| But we knew the furies held the holly sacred
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| We were insulated
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| In a circle of words we’d drawn
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| With wisdom sent from 9 hazels
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| A rowan fire, and a willow rod
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| At 10 comes the vine
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| That generates bramble wine
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| The constant change of the night sun
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| A song in the blood of the white bull
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| Our language of love
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| The Battle of Trees
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| We fought side by side
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| No one had more
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| Sharper consonants than you love
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| And my vowels, well, were trusted
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| From ivy leaves
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| Is an ale that can unveil
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| The hidden meanings and serpents
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| Only revealed through visions
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| Yes, vowels could insert
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| «A» was for the silver fir
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| The furze or gorse then came next
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| With heather at her most passionate
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| The White Poplar’s gift
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| To the souls of the dead
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| A promise that it was not the end
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| But for the vine — the yew its coffin
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| Vowels and consonants
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| The power of trees
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| The power they hold
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| The power of prose
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| So when the church began to twist the old myths
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| They built their own Tower of Babel
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| From ulster to Munster
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| The reed gave way then
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| To the elder
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| The Earth turns her wheel
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| So that night follows day
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| From dawn to dawn
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| From winter to winter
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| That day the ash had power
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| Over the alder
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| Our language of love
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| The Battle of Trees
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| We fought side by side
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| Then he said to me
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| «I've dodged bullets and even poisoned arrows
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| Only to be felled by the blade of a vowel» |