An Fhéasóg Gheal

 

THERE are more worlds than one

 

THERE are more worlds than one, and in many ways

 they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in

 other words, good and evil, are not absent in their

 degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is

 life there is action, and action is but the expression of

 one or other of these qualities.

      After this Earth there is the world of the Shí.

 Beyond it again lies the Many-Coloured Land. Next

 comes the Land of Wonder, and after that the Land of

 Promise awaits us. You will cross clay to get into the

 Shí; you will cross water to attain the Many-Coloured

 Land; fire must be passed ere the Land of Wonder is

 attained, but we do not know what will be crossed for

 the fourth world.

 

James Stephens, from his story ‘Becuma of the White Skin.'

Barry R McCain