Song of Amergin...

[muninnskiss]

AllAboutIrish - The Song of Amergin:I am the wind that blows across the sea;
I am the wave of the deep;
I am the roar of the ocean;
I am the stag of seven battles;
I am the hawk on the cliff;
I am a ray of sunlight;
I am the greenest of plants;
I am a wild boar;
I am a salmon in the river;
I am a lake on the plain;
I am the word of knowledge;
I am the point of a spear;
I am the lure beyond the ends of the earth;
I can shift my shape like a god.

But Robert Cochrane in his letter to Joe Wilson, quoted it combined with two other poems quite differently:

Flags, Flax, and Fodder:I am a Stag Who -- survived the Flood,
I am a Flood -- That destroyed the world,
I am a Wind -- Of God moving across the desolate world,
I am a Tear --The sorrow of Fate,
I am a Hawk -- The Child who survived the Flood,
I am a Thorn -- The beginning of Fate (Death),
I am a Wonder- For I alone transform.

But the order in his final letter to Joe is from the first, but arranged differently:

I am the point of a spear;
I am a salmon in the river;
I am the lure beyond the ends of the earth;
I am a hill (where did this one come from?)
I am a wild boar;