Re: sorry, not Lector - LectER
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 17:25:10 +1000
Tim - the original lines for that Irish blessing are:
`May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
May the rain fall softly
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of his hand.'
So I assume it was a send up of that (:
Camille
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> I am mortified (or proud) to say that I've forgotten it precisely, but it
> was from
> Catholic-school days, and was an Irish blessing of sorts, along the lines
> (and spoken to a dead person) of:
>
> May the wind be ever at your back,
> May the road rise to meet you,
> And may you be in heaven
> Half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.
>
> One of those sentimentalisms that appear on dish towels and coffee cups
and
> calendars and such. I'm sure there's someone here who knows it better
than
> I do.
>
> --tim
>