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Article: Stonehenge. (Looking-Learning) (column)
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- School Arts
- Article date:
- January 1, 1989
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STONEHENGE The ignorance, with fabulous discourse, Robbing fair Art and cunning of their right, Tells how those stones were by the devil's
force from Africa brought to Ireland in a night, And thence to Britannie, by magick course, From `giants' hand redeemed by Merlin's
sleight.
Looking back The wonderful and mysterious stone monument called Stonehenge has puzzled and mystified mankind for over fourteen centuries. The poem above was written by Samuel Danyel in 1624 in response to the earliest written acknowledgement of Stonehenge in the History of the Kings, "This year (483 a.d.) Giants' Dance (the gigantic arrangement of stones) was brought ...