memory

I was in many shapes before I was released:
I was a slender enchanted sword ...
I was rain drops in the air, I was stars' beam;
I was a word in letters, I was a book in origin;
I was lanterns of light for a year and a half;
I was a bridge that stretched over sixty estuaries;
I was a path, I was an eagle, I was a coracle in seas.

-- Taliesin The Book of Taliesin