pigeon or dove's gone feral
as did jonah
swallowed by wildness
and waterbeasts
both men islands at sea
abecaderian he
altered, zealot, not
without violence
his learning,
his poems
Iona
there where
refuge and raid met
he set stone to bone and paper
wrote gods and liturgy
into Latin.
This dove of death in life, peace in prayer
there where stones remembered,
a wake and its night soil
left for the rest of us.
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Altus *prosator, *vetustus
dierum et ingenitus
erat absque origine
primordii et *crepidine
est et erit in sæcula
sæculorum infinita;
cui est unigenitus
Xristus et sanctus spiritus
coæternus in gloria
deitatis perpetua.
Non tres deos *depropimus
sed unum Deum dicimus,
salva fide in personis
tribus gloriosissimis.
High creator, Ancient
of Days, and unbegotten,
who was without origin
at the beginning and foundation,
who was and shall be in infinite
ages of ages;
to whom was only begotten
Christ, and the Holy Ghost,
co-eternal in the everlasting
glory of Godhood.
We do not propose three gods,
but we speak of one God,
saving faith in three
most glorious Persons.
