“I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds,
The gray and wintry sides of many glens,
And did but half remember human words,
In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.”

— John Millington Synge

Prelude (1910).

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Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folk… 1871–1909

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