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The great deep thrills for through it everywhere
The breath of beauty blows.

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On the laugh of a child I am borne to the joy of the King.
Well, when all is said and done

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In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.
The Hermit

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Here in these shades the Ancient knows itself, the Soul,
And out of slumber waking starts unto the goal.

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The twilight fleeted away in pearl on the stream,
And night, like a diamond dome, stood still in our dream.

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Oh, I am so old, meseems
I am next of kin to Time,
The historian of her dreams
From the long forgotten prime.

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No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

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Each dream remembered is a burning-glass,
Where through to darkness from the Light of Lights
Its rays in splendour pass.

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We are desert leagues apart;
Time is misty ages now
Since the warmth of heart to heart
Chased the shadows from my brow.

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All the morn a spirit gay
Breathes within my heart a rhyme,
'Tis but hide and seek we play
In and out the courts of Time.

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What of all the will to do?
It has vanished long ago,
For a dream-shaft pierced it through
From the Unknown Archer's bow.

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Now the quietude of earth
Nestles deep my heart within;
Friendships new and strange have birth
Since I left the city's din.

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Though the dream of love may tire,
In the ages long agone
There were ruby hearts of fire —
Ah, the daughters of the dawn!

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The hope lives on age after age,
Earth with its beauty might be won
For labor as a heritage,
For this has Ireland lost a son.

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We deem our love so infinite
Because the Lord is everywhere,
And love awakening is made bright
And bathed in that diviner air.

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Not unremembering we pass our exile from the starry ways:
One timeless hour in time we caught from the long night of endless days.

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We are tired who follow after
Phantasy and truth that flies:
You with only look and laughter
Stain our hearts with richest dyes.

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For beauty called to beauty and there thronged at the enchanter's will
The vanished hours of love that burn within the Ever-living still.

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Who would think this quiet breather
From the world had taken flight?
Yet within the form we see there
Wakes the golden King to-night.

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Something you see in me I wis not:
Another heart in you I guess:
A stranger's lips — but thine I kiss not,
Erring in all my tenderness.

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We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

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A shaft of fire that falls like dew,
And melts and maddens all my blood,
From out thy spirit flashes through
The burning glass of womanhood.

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Pain and penitence forsaking,
Hearts like cloisters dim and grey,
By your laughter lured, awaking
Join with you the dance of day.
Forgiveness

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I sometimes think a mighty lover
Takes every burning kiss we give:
His lights are those which round us hover:
For him alone our lives we live.

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The life which passes mourns its wasted hour.
And, ah, to think how thin the veil that lies
Between the pain of hell and paradise!
The Grey Eros

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How shallow is this mere that gleams!
Its depth of blue is from the skies;
And from a distant sun the dreams
And lovely light within your eyes.

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The tower of heaven turns darker blue; a starry sparkle now begins;
The mystery and magnificence, the myriad beauty and the sins
Come back to me.

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Our true hearts are forever lonely:
A wistfulness is in our thought:
Our lights are like the dawns which only
Seem bright to us and yet are not.

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Life cannot utter words more great
Than life may meet by sacrifice,
High words were equaled by high fate,
You paid the price. You paid the price.

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In day from some titanic past it seems
As if a thread divine of memory runs;
Born ere the Mighty One began his dreams,
Or yet were stars and suns.

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