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March: a spring month. 1 Ed. included by request

Hrime gehyrstd, hagolscurum farþ

Geond middandgeard Martius rede,
2
Hlyda healic.

Translation:

Adorned with frost, with hail-showers
Fierce March journeys through the earth,

Loud voiced Hlyda. 2

1
Written by monks in Canterbury (or possibly Oxford) around 1040 AD.
2
The Anglo-Saxon calendar-name for March.

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Marvellous World

This is a marvellous world, full of beauty and splendour; it is also an unrelenting and savage
world, and we are not the only living things prone to dominate if given the chance. In our
fumbling, chaotic way, we do also make gardens, irrigate the desert, fly to the moon and
compose symphonies. Some of us are trying to save species other than ourselves…

Pamela Umbima, 1992
Quaker faith and practice25.08
Fifth edition

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