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The castle watches over landscape changed
\nBy mans creation, not the acts of war like before
\nAs in former times, this land knows peace
\nBuy yet may know destruction once more…
\nTrees planted in vision to be grown
\nAmong his descendants to be walked
\nHe could not have seen the fall of Empire
\nHe who of its growth had often talked
\nI who walk there today: this world I know
\nHow will fate and time its realities rearrange
\nAfter my time, when no one knows here once I was
\nWalking and pondering how times passing brings events strange…<\/p>\n

I was walking in Merlin Woods again today, on a summery spring day, with the sun bringing the mood of the season to come that lifts the spirit, I thought of how the trees were planted to bring to life one mans vision for the place, of a future he seen that was not to be, and how different Galway is today from what he envisaged.<\/p>\n

I don’t think that is a bad thing, and on passing the castle ruin once owned by O’ Connor, I though how the world I think of being will turn out to be, and that no one will wonder what I or other anonymous walkers here today think of the world to come and the strangeness of the unfolding of fate and events in their own time… <\/p>\n

The first time I was here was on Christmas Morning, ( which I wrote about here<\/a><\/strong> ) where I walked around the area and then out to Oranmore to pass the time, on an usually fine day for Christmas day before heading on into work that night…<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The castle watches over landscape changed By mans creation, not the acts of war like before As in former times, this land knows peace Buy yet may know destruction once more… Trees planted in vision to be grown Among his descendants to be walked He could not have seen the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651,90],"tags":[1777,391,1776,1565,12],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gander-around-galway","category-walking-verses","tag-friends-of-merlin-woods","tag-galway","tag-merlin-park","tag-merlin-woods","tag-nature","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-qo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2245,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/plotting-a-duel-in-merlin-woods\/","url_meta":{"origin":1636,"position":0},"title":"Plotting a Duel in Merlin Woods","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"3rd September 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Merlin Woods in a wood near where I live. 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