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Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Cumhal called out bending his head
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W B Yeats – Collected Poems
Cumhal called out bending his head
Till Dathi came and stood
With a blink in his eyes, at the cave mouth
Between the wind and the wood
And Cumhal said, bending his knees
‘I have come by the windy way
To gather the half of your blessedness
And learn to pray when you pray
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‘My eyes are blinking’ Dathi said
‘With the secrets of God half blind
But I can see where the wind goes
And follow the way of the wind;
And blessedness goes where the wind goes
And when it is gone we are dead
I see the blessedest soul in the world
And he nods a drunken head
O blessedness comes in the night and the day
And whither the wise heart knows
And one has seen in the redness of wine
The Incorruptible Rose
That drowsily drops faint leaves on him
And the sweetness of desire
While time and the world are ebbing away
In twilights of dew and fire