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Thread #61859 Message #1046858
Posted By: Celtaddict
03-Nov-03 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Where is Cowdenknowes?
Subject: RE: Where is Cowdenknowes?
It can indeeda be visited, at least at a bit of a distance.
On a trip to Scotland with Ed Miller, in 2000, we paused on a hillside above Cowden Knowes, and in a meadow below us was a flock of sheep grazing contentedly. The broom was brilliant yellow all around us. There on the bluff, he sang us the song. As he reached the end, a previously unseen sheepdog dashed out, and the sheep of course flocked as iron filings to a magnet, and were marched off to the unseen shepherd. A moment that could not be arranged or bought at any price.