Lyrics A Terrible Beauty Is Born - Mourning Beloveth

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven’s part, our part
To murmur name upon name
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come on limbs that had run wild
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said
We know their dream enough to know they dreamed and are dead
And what of excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse
MacDonagh and MacBride and Connoly and Pearse
Now and in time to be, wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly
A terrible beauty is born
Oh…
Oh…
Now and in time to be, wherever green is worn, are changed, changed utterly
A terrible beauty is born