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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 289 |
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And each before he passed away Gave clear articulate cries of woe : Your pain is theirs of long ago.
And all the old heart-sweetness sung, The joyous life of man and maid
In forests when the earth was young, In rumors round your childhood strayed :
The careless sweetness of your mind
Comes from the buried years behind.
And not alone unto your birth Their gifts the weeping ages bore,
The old descents of God on earth
Have dowered thee with celestial lore:
So, wise, and filled with sad and gay,
You pass into the further day. |
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JANUS
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MAGE of beauty, when I gaze on thee, Trembling I waken to a mystery ; How through one door we go to life or death, By spirit kindled or the sensual breath. Image of beauty, when my way I go, No single joy or sorrow do I know ; Elate for freedom leaps the starry power, 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 ! Where the cool grass my aching head embowers, God sings the lovely carol of the flowers. |
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