"Summerisle Reprise" lyrics
[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"
"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"
