Cheering with the rest

SWAYED by feelings of mixed emotions viewing the moving historic symbolism of the queen’s visit to our shores, I was put in mind of lines from the ballad The Mountains of Mourne by Percy French describing his own feelings while watching crowds cheer the then-English monarch in London:

“Though by the English we once were oppressed, I cheered, God forgive me, I cheered with the rest.”

William Lane

Ballyvourney

Co Cork