1.27b: Lean neath stone pine the pastor lies with his crook; young pricket by pricket's sister nibbleth...
1.27c: Thus, too, for donkey's years. Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers...
1.27d: and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans...
1.27e: and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year! Year! And laughtears!), these paxsealing...
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synopsis: pastoral scenery — flowers and battlefields
FDV: "Since the times of Hebear and Hairyman the [tulipair][tulips]{twolips} amass themselves at Rush the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun, the dogrose has chosen out Goatstown crossroads, the place for twilights and the whitethorn and redthorn have fairygayed the valleys of Knockmaroon and though, for rings round them during a hundred thousand yeargangs, the Formoreans have brittled the Tooath of the Danes and the Oxmen have been pestered by the Firebugs & the Joynts have given up wallmaking & Little on the Green is childsfather of the city, their paxsealing buttonholes have quadrilled across the centuries and here now whiff to us fresh & [laid]{maid}-of-all-smiles as on the day of combat." →
"Since the high old times of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun, the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown crossroads, twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinlights, the whitethorn and redthorn have fairygayed the mayvalleys of Knockmaroon and though, for rings round them during a hundred thousand yeargangs, the Formoreans have brittled the Tooath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Firebugs & the Joynts have thrown up wallmaking & Little on the Green is childsfather of the city, these paxsealing buttonholes have quadrilled across the centuries and here now whiff to us fresh & made-of-all-smiles as on the day of Killallwhoo."
Joyce is Wake-ifying here a passage in French by Edgar Quinet that he thought the most perfect prose ever, and that he'll later (p281) quote almost exactly in the original French: "Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella the hyacinth disports in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins in Numantia and while around them the cities have changed masters and names, while some have ceased to exist, while the civilizations have collided with each other and smashed, their peaceful generations have passed through the ages and have come up to us, fresh and laughing as on the days of battles."
Thus, too, for donkey's years.
VI.B1.144: 'donkeys years since'
The Leader 15Mar24: 'S' donkey's years since I've had a yap with you old man'
phrase donkey's years: a very long time
ass motif [fweet-120] often associated w/Mmlj
Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman
bouts = battles
bouts (French) = extreme ends
French slang: bout: penis
he-bear
Heber and Heremon: legendary brother-progenitors of the Irish race
Genesis 27:11: 'Esau my brother is a hairy man'
the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun,
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| cornflowers |
Ballymun: district of Dublin
Dublin suburbs: Rush (far northeast), Ballymun (near north), Goatstown (near south), Knockmaroon (far southwest)
the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges,
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| dog-rose |
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| musk-rose |
goats chew roses/hedges? (roses chew goats' hedges?)
Goatstown: district of Dublin
FDV: "chosen out Goatstown crossroads"
twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights,
tulips
"pressed" exerted pressure on who? to gather them
together
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| sweet rush |
cf above: "his rushlit toofarback for messuages"
townland: Irish division of land, size very variable
twilight
FDV: "the place for twilights"
the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygayed the mayvalleys of Knockmaroon:
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| whitethorn |
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| redthorn(?) |
variegated
gayed
Moyvalley: town, County Kildare (on the Liffey river; from Irish Magh Bhealaigh: Plain of the Path)
Knockmaroon Hill, just west of Phoenix Park (also, a western gate of the park)
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