“Life cannot utter words more great
Than life may meet by sacrifice,
High words were equaled by high fate,
You paid the price. You paid the price.”

— George William Russell

To the Memory of Some I knew Who are Dead and Who Loved Ireland (1917)

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

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