scotlit, 24 days ago Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long Through time and never found eternity, Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill, You should have fled our ever-dying song… —Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods” #Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury 4/6
Old gods and goddesses who have lived so long Through time and never found eternity, Fettered by wasting wood and hollowing hill, You should have fled our ever-dying song…
—Edwin Muir, “To the Old Gods” #Scottish #literature #poetry #Orkney #Modernism #20thcentury 4/6