Within this mother being you despise.

Ah, when I think this earth on which we tread
Hath borne these blossoms of the lovely dead,
And made the living heart I love to beat,
I look with sudden awe beneath my feet
As you with erring reverence overhead.




Here ends By Still Waters, Lyrical Poems Old & New by A.E.,
printed upon paper made in Ireland, and published by
Elizabeth C. Yeats at the Dun Emer Press, in the house of
Evelyn Gleeson at Dundrum in the County of Dublin, Ireland,
finished on All Soul's Eve, in the year 1906.