The Crystal Cave Memory and the Past Quotes

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Quote #10

The rhythms of the movement were of course laid down by the work, and the tunes were the old tunes that I remembered from my childhood; my nurse had sung them to me, but she never sang the words that the men sometimes set to them. (V.1.5)

Again, practicality and poetry meet to achieve big things. Merlin leads a massive crew of men to reset the fallen stones of Stonehenge. Though he relies on his mad engineering skills, there's also the poetry of old songs to set the pace and help the crew stay on task so they don't get crushed by the stones.