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IN IRELAND: 1. ON INISHMAAN: ISLES OF ARAN by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN THE TWILIGHT OF THE YEAR
Last Line: THE GREY SEA'S, IN ITS LOW SIGHING.
Subject(s): ARAN ISLANDS, IRELAND;
In the twilight of the year,
Here, about these twilight ways,
When the grey moth night drew near,
Fluttering on a faint flying,
I would linger out the day's
Delicate and moth-grey dying.

Grey, and faint with sleep, the sea
Should enfold me, and release,
Some old peace to dwell with me.
I would quiet the long crying
Of my heart with mournful peace,
The grey sea's, in its low sighing.



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