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PrincessCenedra (157 words)
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the garden, by Lillyjames
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Flora, by anydelirium
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I’m under your spell
Surging like the sea
Wanting you so helplessly
I break with every swell
Lost in ecstasy
Spread beneath my willow tree
You make me com-plete
- Tara, Once More With Feeling
I had a go at using a hurley on my visit to the museum at Croke Park. My bash with the ash was fun :-)
Oddly, the Spanish word for willow is sauce.
The hurley used to hit the ball in hurling (the sport of Cuchulain and other legendary Irish heroes) is generally made from the wood of the ash tree. One unfortunate consequence of this is a regrettable overuse of the phrase "clash of the ash" by lazy sports journalists.
Cricket bats are exclusively made of willow. Dennis Lillee twice used an aluminium bat in Test matches in the 1970's before the laws of the game were adjusted to only allow wooden bats. Synthetic and metal bats are sometimes still used in practice.
We hanged our harps on the willows.
Bible, Psalm cxxxvii. 2.