‘æ,' George William Russell Death Poems

• 1. Terence Macswiney
  See, though the oil be low more purely still and higher
  The flame burns in the body's lamp! The watchers still
  Gaze with unseeing eyes while the Promethean Will,
  The Uncreated Light, the Everlasting Fire
  ...
• 2. Immortality
  We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire;
  For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
  If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
  As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
  ...
• 3. The Great Breath
  Its edges foam'd with amethyst and rose,
  Withers once more the old blue flower of day:
  There where the ether like a diamond glows,
  Its petals fade away.
  ...

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