And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Heyr Himna Smiður (Hear Heaven's Carpenter)
Via Small Dead Animals, the Icelandic group Arstiðir sings, a cappella, the ancient island hymn Heyr Himna Smiður ( Hear Heaven's Carpenter) in a train station, with amazing effect.
From the era when people had little to do but sit around the fire and sing at night. Back before TV. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteDownright haunting in it's beauty.
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