Forty

Music: Eleanor Plunkett. By Turlough O'Carolan. Sequenced by Barry Taylor at Turlough O'Carolan.

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Forty has her husband, child, home. On her rests much, but she is light of heart. Rewards are filtered through the clouds of stone, The merciless routine in monotone Yielding to her patience, will, and art.