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28th-May-2006 04:25 pm - THE WHITE BIRDS


Image Hosted by ImageShack.usI WOULD that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee;
And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

A weariness comes from those dreamers, dew-dabbled, the lily and rose;
Ah, dream not of them, my beloved, the flame of the meteor that goes,
Or the flame of the blue star that lingers hung low in the fall of the dew:
For I would we were changed to white birds on the wandering foam: I and you!

Image Hosted by ImageShack.usI am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore,
Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;
Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!



Poem by Yeats
Painting of 'White birds rising' from yellowfox.org.uk
Painting of Donabate sea storm unknown






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"So venceremos, beidh bua againn eigin lá eigin. Sealadaigh abú."
~Bobby Sands~
Words to live by
Mahatma Gandhi said: "Be the change you want to see in the world."
'Mother Erin'
Two divine persons in one. A mother lamenting her children in bondage. A girl ravished by the Saxon, who weeps over her stringless harp. But her young champions keep watch in the mountains, awaiting the dawn of the bright sun of Freedom. They will gather around her with pikes and swords.
~James Plunkett~
STRUMPET CITY
from 'The Stolen Child'
Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

~William Butler Yeats~
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