“How soft, how sad his voice is ever calling,
Ever unanswered, and the dark rain falling”

— James Joyce, book Pomes Penyeach

She Weeps Over Rahoon, p. 12
Pomes Penyeach (1927)

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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941

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