I guess this isn't really psytrance, but I'm sure many of you are familiar with Sunkings' track "Tongues of Fungus" off of their album "Soul Sleeping"
I reeeally wanted to know what this sample is from, and thus began a long (but intermittent) search.
Of course, for all I know, the physical album contained credits which described the source, but I never had the physical album. And Blue Room USA is long dead...
Anyhow, the words are from a poem by the Welsh poet R.S. Thomas, called "Priest and Peasant"
The poem was read and recorded by Richard Burton, the actor (amazing voice!!)
Here is the poem (odd punctuation from the original):
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You are ill, Davies, ill in mind
An old canker, to your kind
Peculiar, has laid waste the brain's
Potential richness in delight
And beauty; and your body grows
Awry like an old thorn for lack
Of the soil's depth; and sickness there
Uncurls slowly its small tongues
Of fungus that shall, thickening, swell
And choke you, while your few leaves
Are green still.
And so you work
In the wet fields and suffer pain
And loneliness as a tree takes
The night's darkness, the day's rain
While I watch you, and pray for you,
And so increase my small store
Of credit in the bank of God,
Who sees you suffer and me pray
And touches you with the sun's ray,
That heals not, yet blinds my eyes
And seals my lips as Job's were sealed
Imperiously in the old days.
