“By many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led:
But as I went through Patrick Street the hopes and prophecies were dead.
The hopes and prophecies were dead: they could not blossom where the feet
Walked amid rottenness, or where the brawling shouters stamped the street.”
By Still Waters (1906)
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Source: Selected Essays (1904), "Priest and Prophet" (1893), p. 132
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