This morning I woke up from a dream I could not remember, save that part of it was the haunting poem from Jo Danilo’s ‘The Blackwood Crusade’.
It is a very touching poem. Here is is in full.
‘Tis just the beginning of you and me
As we wander by the stream.
You on one side, I on the other,
Just water in between.
I’ll sing to you as time goes by,
As winter melts to spring.
As flowers bloom, and die again,
So to life we’ll cling.
I’ll sing to you as the river floods,
And we’re poured into the sea.
And then I’ll hold you in my arms
Together, finally.’
This is the song that the joint hero, Silas, sings to his baby sister, a strangely precocious and magical infant who seems to come, like the rest of Silas’ family, to a tragic end in the river.
Thinking of it, reminded me what a great book this is. It is a fairy story for all ages, by turns funny, sad and adventurous.
Here is the page on Goodreads
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Thank you, lovely Lucinda! It’s wonderful that the book is still in your mind after all this time 🙂 xxx
Reblogged this on Jo Danilo and commented:
So awesome to hear that my lovely Blackwood book is still sending out ripples and appearing in dreams! I remember the first young girl who read it, aged 14, reporting that she’d had nightmares – but ‘good ones’!
I am not likely to forget it as the writing is so evocative. The fates of the Captain and the Fairy Queen really touched me in a way that is unusual. A truly original book that, if there is any justice, must come to have the recognition that it deserves.