“Let me dream only with my heart,
Love first, and after see:
Know thy diviner counterpart
Before I kneel to thee.
So in thy motions all expressed
Thy angel I may view:
I shall not on thy beauty rest,
But Beauty's ray in you.”

—  George William Russell

By Still Waters (1906)

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Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935

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