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THE MERMAID OF ZENNOR


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The bleak and windswept slopes of the Penwith Peninsula have a strange, mystical charm. The tiny village of Zennor nestles in among the gorse and granite some 5 miles from St. Ives and boasts legends of its own. Men of Zennor once built a hedge around the first cuckoo of spring, to try and preserve the season forever. Witches Rock, close by, is said to be a Midsummer's Eve rendezvous for practitioners of the Black Arts, but the legend which has made Zennor known far and wide is that of the mermaid.

Once, centuries ago, young Matthew Trewhella was the finest singer in the village and a chorister in the church. One day a beautiful young woman in a long dress, a stranger in the village, came to sit at the back of the church to hear him sing. She came often, until one evening she lured him away to the stream which runs through the village and thence down to Pendower Cove. Neither Matthew nor the lady were never seen again.

Then some years later, a mermaid hailed a ship in the cove, asking the captain to remove his anchor which was resting on the door of her house beneath the waves as she wanted to return to her husband, Mathey and their children.The captain made full speed for St.Ives, for mermaids are said to be unlucky to mariners, and when he related his story local folk had little doubt this was the very same stranger who had lured young Matthew away. It is said that on a warm Summer's evening, if you sit near what is now known as Mermaid Cove you may hear the young lovers singing beautifully beneath the waves.

Source: Cranstar Leisure Group
 
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A fluid blade
has slashed deep wounds into his ragged face
The long cascade
and torrent cuts toward its distant place
And so they know
a brief caress and interlude of sleep
but soon she'll flow
to others lost in darkest ocean's deep


He makes to her
an offering, a lonely bloom of red
to thus confer
his longing, shall the earth and sea be wed
A rainbow smile
the water gives but will not be his wife
He falls for miles
impaled on her flowing river knife




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Good morning, Gusty! :rose:

I've got another long day of helping move a friend's stuff.. perhaps the last day. BTW I think one of those new pics was in your AV a few days ago. ;)

Ah, the fae.. aren't they beautiful?
 
LovingTongue said:
Good morning, Gusty! :rose:

I've got another long day of helping move a friend's stuff.. perhaps the last day. BTW I think one of those new pics was in your AV a few days ago. ;)

Ah, the fae.. aren't they beautiful?

OH! fairies are always beautiful, and I have too many AVs,:eek:

Tank you LT! :kiss::heart: Be well PAL! ;)
 
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