"The Heavenly Banquet" by Anon

         The Heavenly Banquet

         I would like to have the men of Heaven

         In my own house

         With vats of good cheer

         Laid out before them.

         I would like to have the three Marys

         Their fame so great.

         I would like to have people

         From every corner of heaven.

         I would like them to be cheerful

         In their drinking.

         I would like to have Jesus, too,

         Here amongst them.

         I would like to have a great lake of beer

         For the King of Kings.

         I'd love to be watching the family of heaven

         Drinking it through all eternity.

Poem: Ascribed to Saint Brigit, but written much later than her life. From Brussels Bibliothèque Royale 5100(book written by Siodrach Ua Mael Conaire in 1533).

This version from Seán Ó Faoláin The Irish : A Character Study (1947). 

See http://maryjones.us/ctexts/brigitbanquet.html for the original.

Image: From The Dinner Party, by Judy Chicago (1979).