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The Body to the Soul (Eva Gore​-​Booth)

from When I Rise Up by Loah

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[Loah] "This poem is a conversation between the body and the soul. I chose a selection of stanzas to tell the story here. The body is sometimes playfully, sometimes angrily admonishing the soul for everything that the soul is putting it through: how much work and intensity and duality. And after all that, the body returns to cruel and indifferent dust while the soul flies on to enjoy eternal life. Perspective!"

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You have dragged me on through the wild wood ways,
You have given me toil and scanty rest,
I have seen the light of ten thousand days
Grow dim and sink and fade in the West.

You shall follow once more a wandering fire
You shall gaze again on the starlit sea,
You shall gather roses out of the mire:
Alas, but you shall not remember me.

Behold, I reach forth from beyond the years,
I will cry to you from beneath the sod,
I will drag you back from the starry spheres,
Yea, down from the very bosom of God.

You shall follow once more a wandering fire
You shall gaze again on the starlit sea,
You shall gather roses out of the mire:
Alas, but you shall not remember me.

You cannot hide from the sun and the wind,
Or the whispered song of the April rain,
The proud earth that moulds all things to her mind,
Shall gather you out of the deeps again.

You shall follow once more a wandering fire
You shall gaze again on the starlit sea,
You shall gather roses out of the mire:
Alas, but you shall not remember me.

credits

from When I Rise Up, released December 16, 2021
Music - Loah
Lyrics - Eva Gore-Booth
Piano - Johnny Taylor
Production & Mixing - Cian Finlay
Recording Engineering - Cian Synnott at Windmill Lane Recording Studios
Mastering - Ruadhraí Cushnen at Camden Recording Studios

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Loah Dublin, Ireland

Loah is Sallay-Matu Garnett, a singer songwriter of Irish /Sierra Leonian descent. She performs her unique blend of Afro- folksoul across solo projects and with collaborators. In 2020, she returned to her old vocation as a pharmacist to frontline, yet continued to contribute culturally, presenting several music shows and releasing When I Rise Up, an EP of poetry from the 1920s set to music. ... more

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