Timelessness

"Here where thy saints have trod"

"Beside St. Brigid’s Cross"

"It was said stone dreams and animal sleeps and man is awake"

"Low rocks, a few weasels, lake"

"Monks in convents of coracles"

Bobby describes Station Island

The Island's gift

"A mountain-locked lake that is just as secluded to-day as when Saint Patrick was attracted to its solitude"

"In going there they are answering the call for blood"

"Recited in the open, while facing the airy spaciousness of mountain, sky and water"

"Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed"

"Shaking the very stars with their fusillades of Paters"

"The very strangeness of the whole rite is like an old memory overlaid by time"

"Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it."

"We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us"