17 Jan 98 - 02:41 AM (#19363)
Subject: Lyr Add: ONLY FROM DAY TO DAY (O'Reilly/Tyrell)
From: Ezio
ONLY FROM DAY TO DAY
(Poem: John Boyle O' Reilly* - Music Seàn Tyrrell)
Only from day to day
The life of a wise man runs;
What matters if seasons far away
Have gloom and have double suns?
To climb the unreal path
We stray from the road way here
We swim the rivers of wrath
We tunnel the hills of fear.
Our feet on the torrent's brink,
Our eyes on the clouds afar,
We fear the things we think,
Instead of the things that are.
Only from day to day
The life of a wise man runs;
What matters if seasons far away
Have gloom and have doubled suns?
Like a tide our work should rise,
Each latest wave the best;
"Today is a king in disguise"
Today is the special test.
Like a sawer's work is life -
The present makes the flaw
And the only field for strife
Is that inch before the saw.
Only from day to day
The life of a wise man runs;
What matters if seasons far away
Have gloom and have doubled suns?
Sung by Seàn Tyrrell on "Cry of a dreamer" (1995)
* John Boyle O'Reilly: born near Drogheda, nearly in the shadow of Tara. Enlisted in the English Cavalry in order to convert fellow Irishmen to fenianism. He was arrested, court-martialed and transported to Australia. He escaped on board an American whaler and on arrival in Boston he soon became involved in anti-slavery activity. He was a man of immense integrity and on his death he was mourned by America from the President to the man-in-the street.
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