You gathered force out of the world-tree’s hardness.If you stretched your hand forth, things might turn to stone.
1.A cloud sits on Beinn Bhàn’s summitlike a periwig.
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Scot George Buchanan was one of the most famous poets in sixteenth-century Europe. Shakespeare? Never heard of him. Spenser, Marlowe, Sidney…