Saturday, July 11, 2026

Fetched home by a strange hen

Earlier today, I ended my post "Decorations from a Tree of Acorns" with two lines from "The Allansford Pursuit" by Robert Graves, for no other reason than that they had popped into my head, despite the fact that I last read that poem in 2001.

Cunning and art he did not lack
But aye her whistle would fetch him back.

This led me to look up the poem and reread it. One stanza caught my attention:

Yet I shall go into a bee
With a mickle horror and dread of thee
And flit to hive in the Devil’s name
Ere that I be fetchèd hame.
-- Bee, take heed of a swallow hen
Will harry thee close, both butt and ben,
For here come I in Our Lady’s Name
All but for to fetch thee hame.

The phrase swallow hen just seemed strange to me. I know hen can refer to any adult female bird, but hen swallow seems more natural -- just as you would say dog fox or bull elephant, with the animal's actual species as the syntactic head.

Later in the day, I put on some music, and "The Man Comes Around" by Johnny Cash came on. It also includes an odd compound with hen, and in the context of fetching someone home.

Then the father hen will call his chickens home

6 comments:

Ra1119bee said...

Johnny Cash was a Pisces. His first wife Vivian
was a Rebis (Multi- racial). It was probably because
 of Vivian being multi- racial why they divorced so
as to not hinder Johnny Cash's rising fame( see link )

 According to the Johnny Cash  bio movie Walk the Line,
Johnny Cash was also a believer in the paranormal
because of his life long dreams about his brother's
tragic death.
Cash, being a First Decan Pisces, that doesn't surprise me
in the least bit.

First Decan Pisces are those born between Feb19--29.
Copy and paste:
"First decan Pisces is the most mystically sensitive
 and ***boundary-less*** of the three decans.
Without the Moon's emotional structure or
 Pluto's power, they are ***pure Neptune — dreamers, channels, and
vessels for something larger than themselves."
~~~~~~~
Copy and paste chorus lyrics to The Man Comes Around:
asterisks mine
"Hear the ****trumpets***, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's ***Alpha and Omega's*** kingdom come'
~~~~~
Of course the Alpha and Omega
 symbolizes totality and ***completeness.


Copy and paste: ( asterisks mine) The Man Comes
Round
'Til ***Armageddon***, no shalam, no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the throne
And at his ***feet, they'll cast the golden crowns
~~~~~~
Armageddon is the Great Upheaval, no?

Regarding the whistle connection.
"But aye her whistle would fetch him back."

 A whistle is symbolic of being without fear.
 When we are in fear of something, we are
in a state of panic which causes chaos or
paralysis. Being uncertain or not understanding
  something causes fear.

Copy and paste from etymology:
"To whistle in the dark "put on a brave face" is by 1939.
To whistle "Dixie" is noted by 1870s
as a common pastime in the South,
to express ***good feeling or drive away gloom
 or show off skill in whistling, or sometimes
to express post-Civil War political sentiment.
Pet birds were trained to whistle it."
~~~~
 There is whistling in the Otis Redding 1964 song:
Sittin on the Dock of the Bay. Note in the lyrics
Redding refers to  ' wasting time'.

' Coincidently'  just days after recording Sittin' on the
Dock of the Bay, Redding and 4 members of his band
perished in an airplane crash in Lake Monona
in Wisconsin.

Another whistle song is the 1988 song by Bobby
McFerrin titled Don't Worry, Be Happy.
Note McFerrin's bare feet in the video.

To be barefoot is not only symbolic of slaves but
also symbolic of the sign of Pisces the fish,
who serve or sacrifice for humanity.

In my 1974 past life reading the reader
asked me to take off one shoe and show
him the bottom of my foot.
The sole of the foot is where the soul
escapes.

Note in the McFerrin video the fish and the birdcage.
Chickens are birds right?

Note that McFerrin and Otis Reding are/were Nigredos.
 Johnny Cash was known as The Man in Black.
The hermit tarot card shows someone cloaked in black.

And last but not least,  especially
 where it concerns the whistle being symbolic of being
without fear, check out the clip from
the 1957 movie : Bridge on the River Kawi.( link below )
In the clip note the red and white flag and
the Nigredos especially the Nigredo sitting
on the porch. Note the Nigredo's bare feet.
Also note the army Whisler's muddy shoes.

  Always follow the symbolism to solve the puzzle.

The Bridge on the River Kwai’ Soundtrack – ‘Colonel Bogey March’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k4NEAIk3PU


https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/05/16/johnny-cash-first-wife-vivian-black/

https://ouramericanstories.com/podcast/faith/the-day-that-johnny-cash-survived-death-and-found-god/

Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

I always respected Cash for daring to sing "Well, I know what's right / I got just one wife," but it turns out I'd misheard him. The word was actually "life." Of course he's just another degenerate who had to assign ordinal numbers to his "wives." Let me guess, he had a "drug problem," too. And he was a "philanthropist," with a strong affinity for a certain Middle Eastern country.

I haven't even looked any of that up, but it's obviously got to be true. He's that character. Why can't any of these creative types stop repeating this same hackneyed storyline?

Ra1119bee said...

William,
As I've commented many times before, everything on this planet
has a dual nature and that most certainly applies to 'creative types'.

I'd bet the farm that Cash's affinity for 'a certain Middle Eastern country'
was sparked by June Carter Cash whom he left his wife Vivian
for.

In order to survive and thrive successfully in this duality
dimension, especially in the music industry means having
to abide to whatever your overlords dictate.
No matter the assignment. No matter the ' industry'.

Recall my many comments
about the Beatles and Theodore Adorno.
Who do you think controls HipHop and
created the Thug Culture? Hint: It ain't
Black people.

The storyline has always been the same game.

Always know what your opponent's know.

Ra1119bee said...

Also, who do you think controlled John Lennon via
the HoneyPot Yoko Ono?

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Yoko Ono as a honeypot is a funny idea. They're not sending their best. Well, if it works, it works, I guess.

Ra1119bee said...

The best is in the eyes of the beholder.

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