“The lights grew thicker unheeded,
For silent and still were we;
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty
Our eyes could never see.”

— George William Russell

"The Unknown God" (1913) http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/350.html <br class="br">Context: Far up the dim twilight fluttered<br>Moth-wings of vapour and flame:<br>The lights danced over the mountains,<br>Star after star they came. The lights grew thicker unheeded,<br>For silent and still were we;<br>Our hearts were drunk with a beauty<br>Our eyes could never see.

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

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