A Place Like This

The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls

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Valarie Budayr
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The splendour falls on castle walls

And snowy summits old in story:

The long light shakes across the lakes,

And the wild cataract leaps in glory.

blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,

Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying,dying,dying.

 

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O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,

And thinner, clearer, farther going!

O sweet and far from cliff and scar

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!

Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:

Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying,dying,dying.

 

(excerpt from "The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls) by

Alfred,Lord Tennyson

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Inspired by the medieval walls he lived within this summer, he built a wall to encircle the fairy village which resides under the rose cypress tree. Be well and happy day to everyone.

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11 responses to “The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls”

  1. Agambroult Avatar
    Agambroult

    Valarie, i was just over at Emily’s blog and I commented that the castle she visited was just the kid of thing that your little “o” would love. Then I saw you had commented already something along the same lines. Isn’t it funny that we know these things about each other and each other’s kids?
    By the way i loved your comment on my blog, that you are cutprrently inspired by how inspired your kids are. There is nothing more powerful and joyful. I am so jalopy alk yours are in good places, ready to take on the world.

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  2. Ren Avatar
    Ren

    Oh V- I am so happy you shared some more photos from you last friday moment- and I LOVE the poem- so perfect.
    Looks like quite the fun project- I look forward to showing this to my monkeys as I am sure they will find inspiration in it!

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  3. Agambroult Avatar
    Agambroult

    Lol! I suppose I should spell check before i publish, huh? Sorry for the jibber jabber.

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  4. Heather Avatar
    Heather

    How wonderful to see your children creating like this. A friend and I took our sons into the woods yesterday, and they spent hours building a shelter made of twigs and branches. They were so proud and inspired by their work, and it just warmed my heart.

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  5. Earth Mama Avatar
    Earth Mama

    IT makes me so happy to see boys also building little fairy structures and using their imagination in nature. I know it is very easy for girls to delve into that type of activity, but somehome I feel like our world doesn’t always allow the space for boys to as much. I saw you wrote about Last Child in the Woods…great book, and it makes sense if we only provide our children (boys included) with the time and space to just be one in nature that endless possibilities will abound. That child nature connection is so important and so powerful…something our society undermines. It’s people like you and I (and Richard Louv, of course!) who can help others understand just how important it really is. Keep up the good work!
    :)Lisa

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  6. Kate England Avatar
    Kate England

    What an intense sense of imagination and play this puts across! So poetic…

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  7. Valarie Budayr Avatar
    Valarie Budayr

    Is what’s really funny is that I understood every word that you meant. 😉 Thank you for your very kind comment. Here’s to inspired mother moments.

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  8. Valarie Budayr Avatar
    Valarie Budayr

    Thanks Ren. I hope the monkeys like it. Let us know if they built their own version.

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  9. Valarie Budayr Avatar
    Valarie Budayr

    I love it when my kids do the shelter building thing. It totally consumes them and they are so happy.

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  10. Valarie Budayr Avatar
    Valarie Budayr

    Hi Lisa!!! I whole-heartedly agree. Because we have a large section of woods on our property which is bordered by all of “O”‘s friends, it is just a given that all of these kids are outside all the time. My son loves the fairies in our garden. He was greatly trained by his two older sisters who told him countless stories of their adventures with the fairies in our yard. How could he drop the ball when they left for college. Now the fairies and elves have fortresses to live in. I love that he put his own spin to the fairy building thing.

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  11. Valarie Budayr Avatar
    Valarie Budayr

    You summed up “O” to the letter.

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