St. Patrick's Day 2007

Saturday, Mar. 17, 2007 - 12:30 a.m.

I suppose I should be doing something more elaborate on today's occasion.

Being three-sixteenths Irish compiled from both sides of my family, I have never actually had a hankering for corned beef once reaching adulthood.

I love Irish music. I can prepare potatoes like nobody's business, and I know how to boil cabbage without destroying it.

And gods help us all, my temper is definitely from my Irish ancestors.

But it occurs to me that there are many Irish nationals who write better than I ever shall.

So, I now present to you a favorite piece from one of my favorite Irish writers.

HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN
by Willam Butler Yeats.

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Okay, that's it. Have a good St. Patrick's Day.

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