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Title: The Nuts of Knowledge
Lyrical Poems New and Old

Author: George William Russell

Release Date: August 29, 2005 [EBook #16616]

Language: English

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THE NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE, LYRICAL
POEMS OLD AND NEW BY A.E.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue
The Nuts of Knowledge
Immortality
The Hermit
The Great Breath
The Divine Vision
The Burning Glass
A Vision of Beauty
Rest
The Earth Breath
Divine Visitation
The Master Singer
Aphrodite
Illusion
Babylon
Alter Ego
Krishna
Symbolism
Sung on a By-Way
The Hunter
The Vision of Love
A Call of the Sidhe
Janus
The Grey Eros
The Memory of Earth
By the Margin of the Great Deep
Three Counsellors,
Desire
The Place of Rest
Sacrifice
Reconciliation
Epilogue

The Manager of the Dun Emer Press has to thank Mr. John Lane for
permission to reprint ten poems from Homeward Songs By The Way, and
ten from The Earth Breath.

FOR BRIAN WHEN HE IS GROWN UP THIS HANDFUL OF THE NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE I
HAVE GATHERED ON THE SECRET STREAMS.

I thought, beloved, to have brought to you
A gift of quietness and ease and peace,
Cooling your brow as with the mystic dew
Dropping from twilight trees.

Homeward I go not yet; the darkness grows;
Not mine the voice to still with peace divine:
From the first fount the stream of quiet flows
Through other hearts than mine.

Yet of my night I give to you the stars,
And of my sorrow here the sweetest gains,
And out of hell, beyond its iron bars,
My scorn of all its pains.

THE NUTS OF KNOWLEDGE

A cabin on the mountain side hid in a grassy nook
Where door and windows open wide that friendly stars may look.
Th