Unending Love (42 page)

Centuries and generations continued to pass the
tales down until they turned into lore.  On a porch in the state of Indiana, in
a place called America that
neither
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David
nor
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Maddoc,
nor
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Christopher
nor
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Rhys, could have
ever
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imagined, an impressionable young girl listened
to her grandfather tell stories of their ancestors, stories that had been
passed down for so long that no one really knew where they came from.  They
were part of the fabric of the family, stories that the impressionable young
girl listened to with great interest and took to heart.  But she did more than
any of her ancestors did - Kathryn wrote them down.

Under her hand, Christopher, Maddoc, Rhys,
David, Daniel, William, Paris, even Brighton, and all the rest of the heroes came
alive again for future generations.

Tales of unending love.

‘Unending Love’ by
Rabindranath
Tagore

I seem to have loved you in
numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age-old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.
You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.
Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever