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Seventy years ago that versatile Irishman who used the pen name A.E. published his collected poems. He was a gifted painter as well as poet, economist as well as a prose essayist, clairvoyant, seer, and, when I met him, more of a sage. Looking through his verses, I select a few lines which impress me:

1. The power is ours to make or mar
Our fate has on the earliest morn,
The DARKNESS and the RADIANCE are
Creatures within the spirit born.

2. The Wisdom that within us grows
Is absolution for our sins.

3. He does not love the bended knees,
The soul made wormlike in HIS sight,
Within whose heaven are hierarchies
And solar kings and lords of light.

4. He felt an inner secret joy--
A spirit of unfettered will
Through light and darkness moving still
Within the ALL to find its own,
To be immortal and alone.

5. Dark churches where the blind Mislead the blind.

6. Unto the deep the deep heart goes,
It seeks a deeper silence still;
It folds itself around with peace,
With folds alike of good or ill
In quietness unfostered cease.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 115