"My birthday began with the water birds
And the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses.
And I rose in rainy autumn,
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days."
- Dylan Thomas, "A Poem in October"

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"By the craggy hillside,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn trees
For pleasure, here and there.
Is any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night."
- William Allingham, "The Fairies"
🎨 Cicely Mary Barker

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In many versions, Lancelot and Guinevere fall in love when he rescues her from the knight Maleagant. However, in a fragment of an earlier Welsh legend, it's King Arthur's foster brother Kay who rescues her instead. This suggests that maybe Kay was Guinevere's original lover.
🎨 Henry Justice Ford

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