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Laghyades	Posted: 09.06.2007, 03:20
registered: May. 2006 Posts: 218 Status: offline last visit: 26.09.08	Trying by Laghyades The blackest of nights and violent seas, and a ship that's come to grief, On a lee shore helplessly driven, now her back's broke on the reef ; Look to your training and squelch your nerves and shut your feelings out, Eighty-nine souls and two small boats . . . . . and a choice that waits without. So remember the motto of lifeboatmen of Kernow in days long gone by: You can't save them all from the shipwreck but, Lord, how you go out and try ! * * * * * * * * Desperate scribes, recording unstintingly, sweating their own hearts' blood, Before the light of the Cornish tongue went out 'neath the English flood ; An Englishman's tongue is not long enough to speak our Cornish Yeth ; Speaking Kernewek, if but one word, proves both your genes and faith. So remember the motto of linguists of Kernow in days long gone by: You can't save it all from oblivion but, Lord, how you go out and try ! * * * * * * * * Moderates seeking the middle path, frustrated yet trying to save The rash and the hotheads, yet shared they the Double Decimation grave ; "Think ye that noose there is strong enough ? Think ye the scaffold will do ? In that case, get yourself up it, for such was constructed for you." So remember the motto of moderates of Kernow in days long gone by: You can't save them all from hotheadedness but, Lord, how you go out and try ! * * * * * * * * The airwaves so quick to denounce us, or simply treat us with ignore ; Everlastingly cynical Government that makes of Blind Justice a whore ; The Census that tells Cornish children they're not real for they've no box to check ; Prime Ministers who are still dealing the cards from the base of the deck. Let's make it the motto of Cornish folk in the face of suppression and lies : We can't always win against bastardry but, Lord, how we'll go out and try ! Laghyades R-E-V-R-O-N-S, *Find out what it means to us.*


goky	Posted: 10.06.2007, 23:05
registered: May. 2007 Posts: 1635 Status: online	Geez you make Cornwall sound like Iraq. Blog Gokypyth yw 'Agan Tavas"?, Agan Tavas yw Eddie Climo. Agan Taves Nowyth


morvran	Posted: 11.06.2007, 01:56
registered: Mar. 2007 Posts: 1293 Status: offline last visit: 05.09.08	When did they last have a shipwreck in Iraq?


goky	Posted: 11.06.2007, 02:02
registered: May. 2007 Posts: 1635 Status: online	Well the country is not entirely landlocked. Blog Gokypyth yw 'Agan Tavas"?, Agan Tavas yw Eddie Climo. Agan Taves Nowyth


Laghyades	Posted: 12.06.2007, 03:34
registered: May. 2006 Posts: 218 Status: offline last visit: 26.09.08	"Geez you make Cornwall sound like Iraq." Oh goody. Does that mean all princes of the House of Windsor are forbidden to come here now ? edited by: Laghyades, Jun 12, 2007 - 02:34 AM Laghyades R-E-V-R-O-N-S, *Find out what it means to us.*