Alexander Carmichael quotes
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“On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.”
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“Be thou a bright flame before me, Be thou a guiding star above me, Be thou a smooth path below me, Today, tonight and forever.”
-- Alexander CarmichaelSource : Alexander Carmichael (2012). “Celtic Prayers and Incantations”, p.14, Courier Corporation
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Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
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“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”
Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
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Source : "Camelot" (song) (1960)
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“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”
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Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
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