“Flame unto flame shall flow and be
Within thy heart and mine as one.”

— George William Russell

By Still Waters (1906)
Context: When the lips I breathed upon
Asked for such love as equals claim
I looked where all the stars were gone
Burned in the day's immortal flame.
"Come thou like yon great dawn to me
From darkness vanquished, battles done:
Flame unto flame shall flow and be
Within thy heart and mine as one.".

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

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