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Dub ny h​-​Ollagh

from Rumours of Unease by Clash Vooar

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This track was written during for a song writing project to commemorate Mona Douglas

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The winds forget to send even a breeze
Into this hollow of the leaning hills;
Here storms are but wild rumours of unease
Echoing about the heights whence water spills
Through rushy moorland springs and heathery rills
Into the secrecy of crowding trees,
Where the quick silence all its clamour stills
To liquid murmurs soft as memories.

No hawk comes here, nor any violent thing;
Never a weasel or pole-cat is seen—
Only the kingfisher’s bejewelled wing,
The blackbird’s mouth of gold, or linnets green
As summer trees.
Young rabbits play between High-arching roots,
sometimes a hare will spring Cautiously among high ferns that screen The fieldward track, and crouch there nibbling

And sometimes in long days of summer heat Hill cattle come, fly-driven to the shade From arid pastures where the fierce rays beat Upon bleached sedge, the land is overlaid With shimmering haze. Into the pool they wade And stand knee-deep in water, burning feet Cooled there, they drink while gleams of jade And iridescent amber ripple and meet

Over this shining pool the seasons pass Lazily: the trees turn brown again Through months of merging colour; in the grass Spring flowers yet linger at the summer’s wane; The scarlet kerns December’s darkness stain Till January brings catkins; or a mass Of honeysuckle scents October rain; After nuts fall the icicles clink like glass,

Here let no mortal tread, save only they Who know the secret ways of wood and stream, For whom the heart of earth beats quick and gay Through winter storms as in the sun’s warm beam: But these shall come at will, and mix their dream With leaves and waters and wild folk at play Until the pale and flickering lights shall seem Part of that glow within the light of day

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from Rumours of Unease, released November 8, 2018
Words from Mona Douglas poem,used with kind permission of the trustees of MNG, tune Aalin Clague Instrumental interludes from trad cow calling tune collected by Mona Douglas

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Clash Vooar Isle of Man

Clash Vooar is Manx Gaelic for ‘Big Groove’. Their music has Manx language and culture at its heart, but reaches out to include a wide range of styles and influences telling old and new stories from the Isle of Man with soul, energy and originality.

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