AN ANCIENT IRISH PRAYER

May the blessings of light be upon you,

Light without and light within.

May the blessed sunlight shine on you

and warm your heart till it glows like

a great peat fire, so that the stranger may warm himself by it.

And may the light shine out of the two eyes of you like a candle set in two windows of a house, bidding the wanderer to

come in out of the storm.

And may the blessing of the earth be

on you —the great and round earth.

May you ever have a kindly greeting for

them you pass as you are going along the road.

May the earth be soft under you when you lie upon it, tired at the end of the day. And may it rest easy over you, when at the last you lie out under it. May it rest so lightly over you that your soul may quickly be through it, and on the way to God.

“There is an appointed time for everything . .. A time to be born and a time to die...

A time to plant and a time to root up . ..

A time to tear down and a timeto build...

A time to weep and a time to laugh” . ..

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