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Home page APPEAL The operas and other works Green Branch productions Photographs Samples from the scores Listen to extracts Sitemap of this site Links to other sites Contact details	Robin Hood and the Turkish Knight by Tim Porter Robin among the leaves so green And Marian his summer's queen Are figures from our childhood's lore, But also something rather more. This winner of a hundred fights And vanquisher of Norman knights Was partly Saxon England's way Of saying that, although it may Have been outplayed on Senlac Hill Its constant stream was running still, And would engulf the Norman few, Submerging them in me and you. But further still, long, long ago, Full fifteen hundred years or so, The man in green pulled on an oar When first the Saxons reached this shore; But as he stepped on land, 'twas clear He was already living here. Time passed; the new religion came; The man in green grinned down the same; And still he grins from vaults of stone When you would rather be alone. It's always Summer in his face, Because he's Time, but also Place. Back to Operas
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