'In a retired vale … a sequestered grove'
And I'll confound the Lethe in Moyola
By coming through Back Park down from Grove Hill
Across Long Rigs on to the riverbank –
Which way, by happy chance, will take me past
The domos placidas, 'those peaceful homes'
Of Upper Broagh. Moths then on evening water
It would have to be, not bees in sunlight,
Midge veils instead of lily beds; but stet
To all the rest: the willow leaves
Elysian-silvered, the grass so fully fledged
And unimprinted it can't not conjure thoughts
Of passing spirit-troops, animae, quibus altera fato
Corpora debentur, 'spirits,' that is,
'To whom second bodies are owed by fate'.
And now to continue, as enjoined to often,
'In my own words':
'All these presences
Once they have rolled time's wheel a thousand years
Are summoned here to drink the river water
So that memories of this underworld are shed
And soul is longing to dwell in flesh and blood
Under the dome of the sky.'
after Aeneid VI, 704–15, 748–51
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