Eileen Jane O'Leary
September 12, 1918 - July 6, 2009
Obituary
An Irish Blessing
May the blessing of Light be on you light without & light within. May the blessed sunlight shine on you & warm your heart, till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come & warm himself at it, & also a friend.
And may the light shine out of the two eyes of you like a candle set in 2 windows of a house, bidding the wanderer to come in out of the storm.
And may the blessing of the rain be on you the soft sweet rain. May it fall upon your spirit so that all the little flowers may spring up & shed their sweetness on the air. And may the blessing of the Great Rains be on you, may they beat upon your spirit & wash it fair & clean, & leave there many a shining pool where the blue of heaven shines, & sometimes a star.
And may the blessing of the Earth be on you – the great round earth; may you always have a kindly greeting for them you pass as you’re going along the roads. May the earth be soft under you when you rest out upon it, tired at the end of a day, & may it rest easy over you when at the last, you lay out under it; may it rest so lightly over you that your soul may be off from under it, quickly, & up off & on its way to God.
And now may the Lord bless you all, & bless you kindly.