"We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet"

"We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet"

Lough Derg--Pilgrimage--Description--Journalism

"With the fall of night the world slipped away. We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet. At intervals we walked into the misty starlight and stamped a little warmth into our feet..."

Shane Leslie, 1885-1971

The Tablet Newspaper, 1910, Leslie, Shane, Saint Patrick's Purgatory: A Record from History and Literature, p. 141.

Burns Oats and Washbourne Ltd, London

1932

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Collection of sources

English

Monograph

DD_0097

54.6083, -7.8714

"With the fall of night the world slipped away. We seemed to stand in a dim place where two worlds meet. At intervals we walked into the misty starlight and stamped a little warmth into our feet. The noiseless going in and out of the watchers was too eerie for words. Truly we seemed to be doing Purgatory for ourselves and our dead. All night our voices rose and fell and the waves bear unseen at our feet. At dawn a white spectral mist hung over the waters and in a kind of dream we went over to St Mary's Chapel for Mass. Then cam the first touch of colour to remind us we were still in the world of sense and not of shadow, for such of our company as were priests drew pale gold vestments over their shoulders and said Mass in a haze of red candlelight."

Newsprint, cited in monograph