Erin : poetic name of Ireland, from Eire, its Gaelic name which was adopted in 1937 by the Irish Free State, a republic comprising 26 counties of southern Ireland.
... Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Hic Jacet Glasnevin Cemetery Patriots, behold your guerdon. This man found Erin, his mother, bleeding, chastised, bound, Naked to imputation, poor, denied, While alien masters held her house of pride. And now behold her! Terrible and fair With the eternal ivy in her hair, Armed with the clamorous thunder ...
... obedient to an unripe hand. Behold him with a single petty pace Possessing Sweden. Sweden once subdued, Thinkst thou the ships that crowd the Northern seas Will stay there? Shall not Britain shake, Erin Pray loudly that the tempest rather choose The fields of Gaul? Scythia shall own our yoke, The Volga's frozen waves endure our march, Unless the young god's fancy rose-ensnared To Italian joys ...
... through the angry waters when the whale Was stunned between two waves and slain my foe Page 779 Betwixt the thunders? Have not the burning hamlets Of Gaul lighted me homeward for a league? Erin has felt me, Norsemen. ALL Glory to Humber. HUMBER Have I not slain the Alban hosts and bound The necks of princes? Yea, their glorious star And wonder for whom three kingdoms strove ...
... which determines them, fixes their measures. What is that power? Heraclitus tells us; all indeed comes into being according to strife, but also all things come into being according to Reason, kat' erin but also kata ton logon . What is this Logos? It is not an inconscient reason in things, for his Fire is not merely an inconscient force, it is Zeus and eternity. Fire, Zeus is Force, but it is also ...
... helpful or consoling; what Heraclitus, on the contrary, really tells us is just this: "all indeed comes into being according to strife, but also all things come into being according to Reason, kat erin but also kata ton logon" 7 It is this expanded Heraclitean message that finds eloquent expression in the last lines of Sri Aurobindo's play: C ASSIOPEA How can the immortal gods and ...
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