This piece is about the Irish poet, harpist, and composer Turlough O’Carolan. As a young man he met the love of his life, Bridget Cruise. He returned years later having been blinded and took the hand of a woman to help her onto a boat. He recognized immediately that it was the hand of Bridget. His sense of touch had remained. Carolan’s Farewell to Music was the last song he ever composed.