Gerald Griffin (1803–1840) Irish novelist, poet and playwright
Eileen Aroon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“They knew me from the dawn of time: if Hermes beats his rainbow wings,
If Angus shakes his locks of light, or golden-haired Apollo sings,
It matters not the name, the land; my joy in all the gods abides:
Even in the cricket in the grass some dimness of me smiles and hides.
For joy of me the day star glows, and in delight and wild desire
The peacock twilight rays aloft its plumes and blooms of shadowy fire,
Where in the vastness too I burn through summer nights and ages long,
And with the fiery footed Watchers shake in myriad dance and song.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
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