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Riddle-me-ree

Joseph Macleod

I was afraid and they gave me guts.
I was alone and they made me love.
Round that wild heat they built a furnace
and in the torment smelted me.

Out of my fragments came design:
I was assembled. I moved, I worked,
I grew receptive. Thanks to them
I have fashioned me.
Who am I?

Joseph Macleod

from An Old Olive Tree (Edinburgh: M. MacDonald, 1971)

Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Joseph MacLeod.

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Joseph Macleod1903 - 1984

Joseph Macleod (pseudonym Adam Drinan) was a British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader.
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