Mike Scott

Mike Scott whose mother is an English teacher was familiar with poetry and literature from a young age. He and The Water boys have brought rock and roll to the poet WB Yeats. One of my favourites of his poems is The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it inthe deep heart's core.
W.B. Yeats 1865-1939