Image of the Week: The Beguiling of Merlin by Edward Burne-Jones
“Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.”—Merlin, The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

O, Merlin, who moved the great Dance of the Giants
You, who brought Uther beget the son of the earth
Enchanter, who, with the stars had an alliance
To be Arthur’s counsel, to bring meaning to his birth
O, bard, ensconced in the absence of Time
By the Lady of the Lake
But whilst, for you, the bluebells chime
Are you nevermore to wake?
Excerpted from “Whither Merlin” by Lisl Madeleine ©2016
Beautiful poem and image.
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