The Pleasant Things of Eloise

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with inspiration from The Pleasant Things of Taliesin, Book of Taliesin IV (14th century)

A pleasant virtue, extreme penance to an extreme course;

Also pleasant, when God is delivering me.

Pleasant, the carousal that hinders not mental exertion;

Also pleasant, to drink together about horns.

Pleasant is Nudd1, the superior wolf—lord;

Also pleasant, a generous one at Candlemas tide1.

Pleasant, berries in the time of harvest;

Also pleasant, wheat upon the stalk.

Pleasant the sun moving in the firmament;

Also pleasant the retaliators of outcries.

Pleasant, a steed with a thick mane in a tangle;

Also pleasant, crackling fuel.

Pleasant, desire, and silver fringes;

Also pleasant, the conjugal ring.

Pleasant, the eagle on the shore of the sea when it flows;

Also pleasant, sea-gulls playing.

Pleasant, a horse with gold-enamelled trappings;

Also pleasant to be honest in a breach.

Pleasant, liquors of the mead-brewer to the multitude;

Also pleasant, a songster generous, amiable.

Pleasant, the open field to cuckoos and the nightingale;

Also pleasant when the weather is serene.

Pleasant, right, and a perfect wedding;

Also pleasant, a present that is loved.

Pleasant, a meal from the penance of a priest;

Also pleasant to bring to the altar.

Pleasant, mead in a court to a minstrel,

Also pleasant, the limiting a great crowd.

Pleasant, the catholic clergy in the church,

Also pleasant, a minstrel in the hail.

Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish;

Also pleasant to us the time of paradise.

Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens;

Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.

Pleasant, summer, and slow long day;

Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement

Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees;

Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.

Pleasant, the solitary doe and the fawn;

Also pleasant, the foamy horseblock.

Pleasant, the camp when the leek flourishes;

Also pleasant, the charlock in the springing corn.

Pleasant, a steed in a leather halter;

Also pleasant, alliance with a king.

Pleasant, the hero that destroys not the yielding;

Also pleasant, the splendid Cymraec language.

Pleasant, the heath when it is green;

Also pleasant, the salt marsh for cattle.

Pleasant, the time when calves draw milk;

Also pleasant, foamy horsemanship.

And what is pleasant to me is no worse.

And the paternal horn by mead-nourished payment.

Pleasant, the directing of fish in the pond;

Also pleasant, calling about to play.

Pleasant, the word that utters the Trinity;

Also pleasant, extreme penance for sin.

Pleasant, the summer of pleasantness;

Communion with the Lord, in the day of judgment.