Algy was sitting quietly by the burn on St. Patrick’s Day, when he experienced a strange phenomenon …
What motion of the sun or stream
Or eyelid shot the gleam
That pierced my body through?
What made me live like these that seem
Self-born, born anew?
[Algy is quoting from W. B. Yeats’ poem Stream and Sun at Glendalough, with apologies to the great Irish poet for taking his words out of their proper context.]
The Adventures of Algy 