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The 'flower' unfurling, Holy Vale, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. OSMUNDA REGALIS Osmund’s heart is white and cold And buried under loam; They come to dig it up at night By the lantern’s glow, And then they slice up Osmund’s heart But nothing shall it bleed. They pound it with a pestle stout And let the juices seep. Corked inside a bottle then Osmund’s heart shall lie, Though no one ever buried him, And no one saw him die. Soon he soothes the aching limb When poured out from his urn, Exhumed—before he beat his last— From underneath a fern. Source material. The Royal Fern (also known colloquially as the Flowering Fern on account of its fertile fronds, which are so dominated by their sori that the upper part of them looks similar to the flowers of the Dock) is known in Cumberland as the Marsh Onion, because of the whitish mass which grows within its rootstock. Folklore (documented in county Galway) has it that this “onion” is the “heart of Osmund”, which, when sliced, pounded and left to macerate, is said to be efficacious in cases of rheumatism. See Roy Vickery, Oxford Dictionary of Plant Lore, Oxford, 1995, p. 322; Edward Step, Wayside and Woodland Ferns, pp. 99–101. Poem by Giles Watson (October 2004) For more of my poems on ferns, see: <a href="http://delta-intkey.com/britht/www/poems.htm">delta-intkey.com/britht/www/poems.htm</a> |
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