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51 lines
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MAY DAY CHANT ONE
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Here we come apiping,
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In Springtime and in May;
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Green fruit aripening,
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And Winter fled away.
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The Queen she sits upon the strand,
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Fair as lily, white as wand;
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Seven billows on the sea,
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Horses riding fast and free,
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And bells beyond the sand.
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Valiente, Doreen; "Witchcraft for Tomorrow"; Phoenix Publishing 1985
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MAY DAY CHANT THREE
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The High Priestess and High Priest lead a ring dance around the bonfire. Start out with "A Tree Song" from Rudyard Kipling's "Weland's Sword" story in "Puck of Pook's Hill".
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"Oh, do not tell the Priest of our Art,
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Or he would call it sin;
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But we shall be out in the woods all night,
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A conjuring summer in!
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And we bring you news by word of mouth
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For women, cattle and corn
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Now is the dun come up from the South
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With Oak, and Ash and Thorn!"
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Farrar, Janet and Stewart; "Eight Sabbats For Witches"; Robert Hale 1983
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STAG CALL also MAYCHANT 4
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The men gather around the fire, next to their partners, and they say in unison:
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"I am the stag of seven tines;
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I am a wide flood on the plain;
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I am a wind on the deep waters;
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I am a shining tear of the sun;
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I am a hawk on a cliff;
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I am fair among flowers;
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I am a god who sets the head afire with smoke."
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Graves, Robert; "The White Goddess"; Farrar 1970
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Transcribed to computer files by Seastrider
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