LISTEN: Intro (0:00 to 1:06) Big Horse Woman (1:07 to 3:44) Magghie (4:05 to 5:30)
I, Magghie Wilder, Dedicate this to – Maye Wilder, Hans Wilder, my Mother and Father
There is no need to try to remember them that went ahead.
I will always Know them, and can’t forget, so needn’t have to remember.
Always they are there in the air around me, in the leaves and grass
and hair standing up on the horses’ backs.
Here they are, in my words, on this page, they still stride before my eyes
and if only I could draw a line as swiftly as a thought,
they would be dancing – alive – in front of yours,
they would be – a picture
any eye could plainly see.
My mother and my father were known to me,
known to the land they walked on,
known to the horses, known by the trees.
And known to me…
Otherwise they kept almost entirely to themselves.
But I shan’t do that, can’t keep them to themselves.
In words and pictures I will bring them out, for everyone to see.
And remembered they will be.