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    By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New
    By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New
    By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New
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    By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New

    By George William Russell

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New
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    George William Russell

    Æ (GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL) (1867–1935) was born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh. A poet, political activist, novelist, essayist and painter, he appears as a character in James Joyce’s Ulysses. His pseudonym ‘Æ’ was abbreviated from the word ‘Æon,’ and reflects his spiritualist beliefs.

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      By Still Waters - George William Russell

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of By Still Waters, by George William Russell

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      Title: By Still Waters

      Lyrical Poems Old and New

      Author: George William Russell

      Release Date: August 29, 2005 [EBook #16615]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BY STILL WATERS ***

      Produced by David Starner, Sankar Viswanathan, and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      BY STILL WATERS, LYRICAL

      POEMS OLD AND NEW BY A.E.

      THE DUN EMER PRESS

      DUNDRUM

      MCMVI

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Manager of the Dun Emer Press has to thank

      Mr. John Lane for permission to reprint ten poems

      from Homeward Songs by the Way and nine poems from

      The Earth Breath, also Messrs. Macmillan & Co.

      for permission to reprint seven poems from The Divine Vision.

      Oh, be not led away,

      Lured by the colour of the sun-rich day.

      The gay romance of song

      Unto the spirit life doth not belong:

      Though far-between the hours

      In which the Master of Angelic powers

      Lightens the dusk within

      The holy of holies, be it thine to win

      Rare vistas of white light,

      Half parted lips through which the Infinite

      Murmurs her ancient story,

      Harkening to whom the wandering planets hoary

      Waken primeval fires,

      With deeper rapture in celestial choirs

      Breathe, and with fleeter motion

      Wheel in their orbits through the surgeless ocean.

      So hearken thou like these,

      Intent on her, mounting by slow degrees,

      Until thy song's elation

      Echoes her multitudinous meditation.

      A SUMMER NIGHT

      Her mist of primroses within her breast

      Twilight hath folded up, and o'er the west,

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