Seafoam and Firelight (Classic Reprint) - Dermot O'Byrne

Excerpt from Seafoam and Firelight
In Carna.
Sometimes among these stony silent places,
When long gleams tremble through the quietude
Upon the sea-stained rags and wind-worn faces
Of this poor folk, through some ancestral mood
I feel the shades of ancient splendours brood.
Then have I heard the wind with slender fingers
Harping strange things among the tossing reeds,
A lordlier music than the old blind singers
Made of Cuchulainn and his mighty deeds,
And heroes this faint time no longer heeds.
A wilder glory floods the creeping water
Than fell from torque or gorgelet of old kings,
And all the beauty of the harper's daughter
Glows in the grey eyes of some girl that sings -
Yet Deirdre has been dust two thousand Springs.
And when the gentle shepherd Nightcomesbringing
The golden stars to wander in the sky,
I hear the heart of mother Dana singing
Among the tumbled rocks, and the far cry
Of hidden wondrous folk that never die.
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