Re: Jig of Life poem.

[Peter Glen Berger <pb1p+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes:
> Really-From: jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka)
> 
> 
> >Really-From: kk4fs!s_fungus@crdgw1.ge.com (Slender Fungus)
> >
> >Could someone please post or E-mail the little poem in "Jig of Life"?
>
>  <most of poem deleted> 
>
> We are the going water and the gone
> We are of water and the holy land of water
> And all that's to come runs in 
> With the thrust on the strand.
> 
> Anybody know if KaTe wrote this part herself or if John Carder not only
> recited, but also wrote it?
> 
> Jeff
> 

At least the last paragraph is derived from an anonymous Irish folk
song/poem.  I'll post it as soon as I remember to bring my Bartlett's
to work.  Vaguely, it's "Ich am of Irelonde and the Holy Lande of
Irelonde". 

> -- 
> |Jeffrey C. Burka                | "At night they're seen                 |
> |                                |  Laughing, loving,                     |
> |jeffy@lewhoosh.umd.edu          |  They know the way to be happy" --KaTe |



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