If music be the food of love, Sing on till I am fill’d with joy; For then my list’ning soul you move To pleasures that can never cloy. Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare That you are music ev’rywhere. Pleasures invade both eye and ear, So fierce the transports are, they wound, And all [...]
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MacGillivray: Song for the Mira
Posted in -all posts-, life & memories, tagged Allister MacGillivray, Cape Breton, Celtic music, choral music, MacGillivray, Mira, Music, poetry, Song for the Mira on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Out on the Mira on warm afternoons, Old men go fishing with black line and spoons; And if they catch nothing they never complain, And I wish I was with them again. As boys in the boats call to girls on the shore, Teasing the ones that they dearly adore; And into the evening the [...]
