A sacrifice from the old by Michael Hanrahan
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the scene shows two people stood by a fire. they are sacrificing a lamb. what emerges from the fire is a beautiful white swan of gigantic size. in the right foreground are two angels. i wrote this little poem to go with it. i saw two men making a sacrifice, a lamb was on the fire; what emerged was a giant bird; a beautiful bird - a swan. so the divinities blessed the earth, and the fire that consumed.
About the Artist
Michael Hanrahan
I love art but it's very much up and down as I go about my day to day life as a painter and often I really struggle to paint therefore I fall out with it. You're only as good as your last painting as they say. My greatest love is music and I prefer to write classical music for orchestra than paint…
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