“Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page.”

—  Van Morrison

Rave On, John Donne
Song lyrics, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983)

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Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician 1945

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