Tales from Two Rivers

Introduction

Here, I will publish excerpts from a book I am writing, tracing the course of two rivers and weaving tales of the supermundane, nature, and material existence.

Before each tale, I will include a poem or a passage that has caught my eye, much like the one below.

The Editor

All things are quite silent, each mortal at rest 

when me and my love got snug in one nest.

Then a bold set of ruffians entered our cave

and forced my dear jewel to plough the salt wave.

I begged hard for my darling as I would for my life

but they'd not listen to me although a fond wife.

Saying, 'The king must have sailors, to the seas he must go.'

And they've left me lamenting in sorrow and woe.

Ted Baines, All Things Are Quite Silent.

Ralph Vaughan Williams MSS Collection. British Library.