" title="Painted, spoken Raymond Friel
Unplugged
The first colony of Empire was in fact England
Dick Gaughan
Home
to an empty house
I made some tea
and fed
a Handful of Earth
to the CD’s
pet lip.
Volume up,
acoustic guitar
startled
the room,
a voice
clear as day
came back to me…
*
The commons
will be ploughed
and planted
with clover
St George’s Hill
sown
with parsnips
for the earth
is a common treasury
Christ
scorns the rich
Christ
the chief leveller
is coming
in this age
and then we’ll see
levelling
the hills
the valleys
and monuments
He will be here
in us
naked as Adam −
not in the king
or his army
damn him
and his progeny
to hell
the fires
of perdition
will lick
at them −
in us
man & woman
our bodies
in common
sparks
of a great glory
under these ashes
We have dreamt
a new heaven
& a new shining earth
we have dreamt
a new England
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