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A.E. (GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL) by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT

Poem Explanation

First Line: NOW YOU ARE GONE YOU SEEM A VISITOR
Last Line: LIGHTING LOW IRISH HILLS, AND THEN AFAR %TO ITS OWN REGIONS HOMING
Now you are gone you seem a visitor,
Something that haunted for a little time
The splendor of the evening, or astir
With bees in blooms of lime;


Or, at the hour when mothers tell old tales
To children, something passing through the gleams
Of cottage windows; or, on western gales
Riding, a king of dreams;


Or, about hawthorns lingering to greet
The earliest may among the blazing green,
Or, through the heather traveling to meet
Spirits we have not seen;


A lovely radiance of a passing star
Upon a sudden journey through the gloaming,
Lighting, low Irish dills, and then afar
To its own regions homing.




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