lorcanius

Explaining the mind pathology of Mass Formation as it is portrayed in Dostoevsky's novel and in the folklore of fairies. Includes the song, A Bhean Úd Thíos; a traditional Gaelic sean nós lullaby about a fairy abduction

Song by 1916 rising signatory, Joseph Plunkett. Music by Lorcán Mac Mathúna Lyrics As blazes forth through clouds the morning sun, So shines your soul, and I must veil my sight Lest it be stricken to eternal night By too much seeing ere my song be done, And I must sing your body’s clouds that run To hide you with their crimson, green and white At sunset dawn and noon—and then the flight Of stars that chant your praise in unison. But I beneath the planetary choir Still as a stone lie dumbly, till the dark Lifts its broad wings—then swift as you draw nigher I raise Memnonian song, and all must hark, For you have flung a brand and fixed a spark Deep in the stone, of your immortal fire.