Disappearing Miri : St Patrick's Day

March Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick, is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick, the foremost patron saint of Ireland.

It used to be celebrated in Miri annually in the Gymkhana Club. Now that the International Community is too small, St Patrick's Day is no longer celebrated there. It was such a blast every year. Green hats, green costumes, and even green lipstick!!

  

 

 The Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in County Sligo, Ireland, near which Yeats spent his summers as a child. Yeats describes the inspiration for the poem coming from a "sudden" memory of his childhood while walking down Fleet Street in London in 1888.

The poem was taught in secondary school for several years. Malaysian students actually found it too difficult to fathom.

 

Lake Isle of Innisfree

by William Butler Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.