THE SONG OF AMERGIN I am Wind on Sea, I am Ocean-wave, I am Roar of Sea, I am Bull of Seven Fights, I am Hawk on Cliff, I am Dewdrop, I am Fairest of Flowers, I am Boar for Boldness, I am Salmon in Pool, I am Lake on Plain, I am a Mountain in a Man, I am a Word of Skill, I am the Point of a Weapon, A weapon fierce in battle, I am One who fills the Head with Fire. (From the Lebor Gabala Erenn, The Book of the Taking of Ireland, Part V, R.A.S. Macalister, trans. and ed., London, Irish Texts Society, 1956.Some lines are revised.)

TALIESIN'S FLIGHT I have fled with vigour, I have fled as a frog, I have fled in the semblance of a crow, scarcely finding rest I have fled vehemently, I have fled as a chain, I have fled as a roe into an entangled thicket I have fled as a wolf cub, I have fled as a wolf in a wilderness, I have fled as a thrush of portending language I have fled as a fox, used to concurrent bounds of quirks I have fled as a martin, which did not avail I have fled as a squirrel, that vainly hides, I have fled as a stag's antler, of ruddy course, I have fled as iron in a glowing fire, I have fled as a spear-head, of woe to such as has a wish for it I have fled as a fierce bull bitterly fighting, I have fled as a bristly boar seen in a ravine, I have fled as a white grain of pure wheat .... (From: The Lady Charlotte Guest Translation found at Sacred Texts.com.)

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