Song for Gwydion - R.S. Thomas

When I was a child and the soft flesh was forming

Quietly as snow on the bare boughs of bone,

My father brought me trout from the green river

From whose chill lips the water song had flown.

Dull grey their eyes, the beautiful, blithe garland

Of stipples faded, as light shocked the brain;

They were the first sweet sacrifice I tasted,

A young god, ignorant of the blood's stain.