Produced by David Starner, Sankar Viswanathan, and the
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BY STILL WATERS, LYRICAL
POEMS OLD AND NEW BY A.E.
THE DUN EMER PRESS
DUNDRUM
MCMVI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prelude
A Summer Night
Creation
Dusk
Night
Dawn
Day
Dana
Remembrance
The Hour of the King
The Winds of Angus
Reflections
The Dawn of Darkness
Natural Magic
In the Womb
Forgiveness
A Woman's Voice
Parting
A Prayer
The Heroes
Recall
Blindness
Brotherhood
A New Being
The Man to the Angel
Endurance
The Vesture of the Soul
The Twilight of Earth
The Dream
The Parting of Ways
Song
The Virgin Mother
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.