Relationships
A Leader
From Collected Poems (1913)
Relationships
Though your eyes with tears were blind,
Pain upon the path you trod:
Well we knew, the hosts behind,
Voice and shining of a god.
For your darkness was our day:
Signal fires, your pains untold
Lit us on our wandering way
To the mystic heart of gold.
Naught we knew of the high land,
Beauty burning in its spheres;
Sorrow we could understand
And the mystery told in tears.
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George William Russell (A.E.). “A Leader.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/russell_ge/143/.
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George William Russell (A.E.). “A Leader.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/russell_ge/143/.
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