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The Child (5.31)

The Young Man of York, tells of how when he was a young boy he suffered from a terrible illness that his parents feared that he would die. He said he had no such fears because at the height of his fever he had visions of a child who would come to his dreams and take him out playing football in the fields, and they would get up to all sorts of mischief, like stealing apples from the orchard and bread from the bakers. But each of his stories proved to be true - that apples and bread really had been stolen, even though he was too sick to rise from his bed. Several villagers had reported seeing the two ghostly boys playing in the fields together, and hearing their laughter about the place at night. He tells them that one the last night his spectral playmate told him that he would get better, and that when he was of age, his must go on pilgrimage to the Holy Shrine of a Saint who once had his feet dried by otters. It was only later that he heard the story, and knew that he must go to Durham.

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from The Durham Pilgrims, released July 31, 2013

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'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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