| Padraic Colum (1881–1972). Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922. |
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| 156. Immortality |
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| By A. E. |
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| WE MUST pass like smoke or live within the spirit’s fire; | |
| For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return | |
| If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, | |
| As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn. | |
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| Lights of infinite pity star the grey dusk of our days: | 5 |
| Surely here is soul: with it we have eternal breath: | |
| In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways, | |
| By unnumbered ways of dream to death. | |
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