2014-04-10

Ar an lá seo 10 Aibreán

Ar an lá seo 10 Aibreán, 1867, rugadh George Russell (Æ)

Aontacht


(Sliocht)
Ní dá bhfaca i measc gach ní eile,
Smaoineamh amháin ar neamh is ar tír:
Ciúnas is callán is iad le chéile
I bpálás suite. Is siúd ag sní

An fhís mhisteach i ngach aon bhall
Sa duine, sa choill is fós sa ghlaise
Is cé a bheadh in ann a rá
Arbh é sruth mo bhrionglóidí é nó a mhalairt.

Seal ag éirí mar laomfhuinneamh
I m’aigne, ar a grinneall,
Gur leath ansin ar fud na cruinne –
Guthanna na gaoithe is iad ar tinneall.


UNITY

[extract]
ONE thing in all things have I seen:
One thought has haunted earth and air:
Clangour and silence both have been
Its palace chambers. Everywhere

I saw the mystic vision flow
And live in men and woods and streams,
Until I could no longer know
The dream of life from my own dreams.

Sometimes it rose like fire in me
Within the depths of my own mind,
And spreading to infinity,
It took the voices of the wind . . .