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1882–1950

DONNYBROOK

James Stephens

I saw the moon so broad and bright Sailing high on a frosty night: And the air swung far and far between The silver disc and the orb of green:

While here and there a wisp of white Cloud-film swam on the misty light: And crusted thickly on the sky, High and higher and yet more high,

Were golden star-points dusted through The great, wide, silent vault of blue: Then I said to me — God is good And the world is fair — and where I stood

I knelt me down and bent my head, And said my prayers, and went to bed.

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