{"id":774,"date":"2014-09-29T22:34:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T22:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2014-10-19T23:22:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T23:22:05","slug":"i-heard-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/i-heard-not\/","title":{"rendered":"I Heard Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I Heard Not&quot; - Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh. Poetry on Knowth Passage Tomb in Ireland\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BO-Njqt-V-w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKnowth Passage tomb is a site of history, not alone of prehistoric times, but of the Normans who held a fort here and all the others who used its elevation as a vantage point for protection. The prehistoric element is only a chapter in this sites story. Along with its twin site of Dowth, it makes up part of the Br\u00fa na Bionne neolithic site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; standing at a Knowth Passage tomb &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I heard not the cries of the Norman child<br \/>\nFrom the forgotten keep that no longer stands<br \/>\nSlapped by its mother for a reason lost in time<br \/>\nAnd its pains soothed by another&#8217;s hands<\/p>\n<p>I heard not the cries of a mother in childbirth<br \/>\nHeard not the cries of another&#8217;s fear<br \/>\nAs their fortress came under attack<br \/>\nHeard not the cry of a soldier killed by spear.<\/p>\n<p>I heard not the prayers of the Christian man<br \/>\nWho refuge from others attacking here found<br \/>\nWhere he built his home where he never should<br \/>\nUpon this ancient burial mound.<\/p>\n<p>I heard not the chants of those whose dead<br \/>\nWere placed all those years ago<br \/>\nAbout whom we have learned in time so much<br \/>\nAnd about whom we so little know.<\/p>\n<p>I heard not the orders barked in an unknown tongue<br \/>\nAs to how these stones were to be placed<br \/>\nBy a people of no writing or modern tools<br \/>\nWhose technology and knowledge we have misplaced<\/p>\n<p>But I did hear the bird song and the silence<br \/>\nThat must have echoed so loud and quiet in their ears<br \/>\nThat thing all civilisation&#8217;s have in common<br \/>\nThe melodious soundtrack of the passing years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowth Passage tomb is a site of history, not alone of prehistoric times, but of the Normans who held a fort here and all the others who used its elevation as a vantage point for protection. The prehistoric element is only a chapter in this sites story. Along with its &#8230;<\/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":[256,168,169],"tags":[1011,1008,1010,258,1009],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-heritage","category-irish-legend","category-myths-and-tales","tag-dowth","tag-irish-heritage-2","tag-knowth","tag-newgrange","tag-stone-age","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-cu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2863,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/three-men-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":774,"position":0},"title":"Three Men Dead","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"22nd June 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"On listening to a talk about three men killed by firing squad in Birr castle in 1922 during the Irish Civil War. 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