“Let thy young wanderer dream on:
Call him not home.
A door opens, a breath a voice
From the ancient room,
Speaks to him now. Be it dark or bright
He is knit with his doom.”

—  George William Russell

"Germinal" in Vale and Other Poems (1931)

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

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