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- BEAUTIFUL LOFTY THlNGS
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- BEAUTIFUL lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;
- My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd:
- "This Land of Saints,' and then as the applause died out,
- "Of plaster Saints'; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
- Standish O'Grady supporting himself between the tables
- Speaking to a drunken audience high nonsensical words;
- Augusta Gregory seated at her great ormolu table,
- Her eightieth winter approaching: "Yesterday he threatened my life.
- I told him that nightly from six to seven I sat at this table,
- The blinds drawn up'; Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
- Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head:
- All the Olympians; a thing never known again.
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