Hermit Songs 1: The Desire for Hermitage
Ah! To be all alone, in a little cell, with nobody near me…” from “The Desire for Hermitage,” tenth of the Hermit Songs. Words 8th-9th century, trans. Sean O’Faolain Isolation and solitude and loneliness seem to be the buzzwords of the COVID-19 pandemic, but those words describe the opposite of…
