Megalithic Poems

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This poem is on the wall in the visitor's cetnter at Skara Brae on Orkney. It took me ages to track down. . I had to join a Makay Brown Internet Forum to get the name of the book it's in, then buy the book off ebay.

I should have just took a photo of the wall. . or even written it down. . but it's a fine poem. And the book's great too.

Qual e' colui che somniando vede,
che dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
rimane, e l'altro a la mente non riede...

'Like somebody who sees things when he's dreaming
And after the dream lives with the aftermath
Of what he felt, no other trace remaining...'

Dante, Pariso, Canto XXXIII

You've probably already been here suave but just in case... http://www.georgemackaybrown.co.uk/gmb/siteindex.htm

Quite a guy - the 'Bard of the Orkneys'