Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Diamond #2, this is more legit

So I hate to repeat a diamond, but it was one I had chosen before.
Gretta's epiphany begins when she hears the song "The Lass of Aughrim" at the top of the stairs sung by Mr. D'arcy with a cold, and continues at the hotel. It is like the song uncorcked a bottle of emotions/memories she had sealed. She seems alone and isolated in her grief/memory. Which begs the thought of what could have been, with what is I suppose. That reminds me of Taylor wondering if music could be an epiphany, and I think it is illustrated here very well.


LASS OF AUGHRIM, THE

If you'll be the lass of Aughrim
As I am taking you mean to be
Tell me the first token
That passed between you and me

O don't you remember
That night on yon lean hill
When we both met together
Which I am sorry now to tell

The rain falls on my yellow locks
And the dew it wets my skin;
My babe lies cold within my arms;
Lord Gregory, let me in

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