The Open Road
The open road, the sky over it, and the hills beyond. The hills beyond, those blue, ultimate hills; the clouds that look like hills; the mystery plucked out of them, and lo, the sea, stretching away into the vast—white-crested, grey, inscrutable—with a mirage dancing on its furthest verge!
Notes
1 Book of Leinster.
2 He had the Old Age Pension.
3 Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster, a contemporary of Conchubhair MacNeassa, who was—so tradition has it—born on the same night as Christ.
4 In fact, a “go of water” is a byword there—“Many a girl met her man in a go of water!”