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the King, For a touch that now fevers me not is forgotten and far, And His infinite sceptred hands that sway us can bring?Me in dreams from the laugh of a child to the song of a star. On the laugh of a child I am borne to the joy of the King.
Well, when all is said and done?Best within my narrow way,?May some angel of the sun?Muse memorial o'er my clay:
'Here was beauty all betrayed?From the freedom of her state;?From her human uses stayed?On an idle rhyme to wait.
Ah, what deep despair might move?If the beauty lit a smile,?Or the heart was warm with love?That was pondering the while.
He has built his monument?With the winds of time at strife,?Who could have before he went?Written in the book of life.
To the stars from which he came?Empty handed he goes home;?He who might have wrought in flame?Only traced upon the foam.'
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'Sinend daughter of Lodan Lucharglan, son of Lir, out of the Land of Promise went to Connlas' Well which is under the sea, to behold it. That is a well at which are the hazels of wisdom and inspiration that is, the hazels of the science of poetry; and in the same hour their fruit and their blossom & their foliage break forth, and then fall upon the well in the same shower, which raises upon the water a royal surge of purple.'
HERE ENDS THE NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE, WRITTEN BY A.E., PRINTED, UPON PAPER MADE IN IRELAND, AND PUBLISHED BY ELIZABETH CORBET YEATS AT THE DUN EMER PRESS, IN THE HOUSE OF EVELYN GLEESON AT DUNDRUM IN THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN, IRELAND,?FINISHED ON THE TENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, IN THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED & THREE.
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