“You who have died on Eastern hills
Or fields of France as undismayed,
Who lit with interlinked wills
The long heroic barricade,
You, too, in all the dreams you had,
Thought of some thing for Ireland done.”

—  George William Russell

To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)

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

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