Here's a virtual movie of a wonderful recital of of the mystical beautiful poem "A Song of Enchantment" By Walter de la Mare. Fans of certain British television soap opera may recognise the young and very beautiful demure face of June Brown who is still amazing now in her late 80's and full of life who I have used as the face of our virtual reader of this great poem.

Widdershins (sometimes withershins, widershins or widderschynnes) To go counter-clockwise, to go anti-clockwise, or to go lefthandwise, or to walk around an object by always keeping it on the left. i.e. literally, it means to take a course opposite the apparent motion of the sun viewed from the Arctic Circle, (given the centre of this imaginary clock, is the ground, the viewer stands upon).[1] The Oxford English Dictionary's entry cites the earliest uses of the word from 1513, where it was found in the phrase widdersyns start my hair, i.e. my hair stood on end.
The use of the word also means "in a direction opposite to the usual", and in a direction contrary to the apparent course of the sun. It is cognate with the German language widersinnig, i.e., "against" + "sense". The term "widdershins" was especially common in Lowland Scots.

Walter John de la Mare, OM, CH (/ˈdɛləˌmɛər/;[1] 25 April 1873 -- 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem "The Listeners". He also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them "Seaton's Aunt" and "Out of the Deep". His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction[2] and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books

June Muriel Brown, MBE (born 16 February 1927) is a three time British Soap Award British actress, best known for her role as Dot Cotton in the long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders, and for making other high profile television appearances on shows such as Doctor Who, Coronation Street, Minder, The Bill and The Sweeney.

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Jim Clark
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