“In ancient shadows and twilights
Where childhood had strayed,
The world’s great sorrows were born
And its heroes were made.
In the lost boyhood of Judas
Christ was betrayed.”

—  George William Russell

"Germinal" in Vale and Other Poems (1931)

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

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