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“The calm sea sleeps upon the shore/Each wavelet like a dreamer’s breath Soft swells and falls, it could no more/Of stillness offer save in death. . .”

THOSE LINES from Autumn day in Glenariff by Sir Roger Casement were recalled during a recent visit to the Glens of Antrim. The spirit of this humanitarian and patriot still roams the glens.