Summerisle Reprise

Lyrics for Summerisle Reprise

Lord Summerisle: "And the ministers fled the island never to return. What my grandfather started out of expediency, My father continued out of love. He brought me up the same way: To reverence the music, and the drama, And the rituals of the old gods; to love nature and to fear it, And to rely on it and to appease it When necessary. He brought me up —" Sergeant Howie: "He brought you up to be a pagan!" Lord Summerisle: "A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one."