In ancient Ireland cattle raids were a regular means of wealth and status acquisition-- frequently ending in beheading for a captured raider. When my son was just starting his ramble he loved to see red angus cattle above all other things. This poem traces the potential inherency of his attraction. "Sapling rowan wattle and daub" describes the ancient housing of the irish, rowan being a flexible willow type tree and wattle and daub describing the method of house weaving.  

William Justice 3