The Mind
That
From A Book of Irish Verse, ed. W. B. Yeats (1900)
The Mind
What is that beyond thy life,
And beyond all life around,
Which, when thy quick brain is still,
Nods to thee from the stars?
Lo, it says, thou hast found
Me, the lonely, lonely one.
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