“The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted out man’s image and his cry.”

The Sorrow Of Love http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1691/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Rose (1893)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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“The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,And all that famous harmony of leaves,Had blotted out man’s image and his cry.”

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“The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted out man’s image and his cry.”