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The Celtic Twilight
A collection of folktales and myths from Sligo and Galway, first published in 1893, revised in 1902.
Time drops in decay
Like a candle burnt out.
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
But, kindly old rout
Of the fire-born moods,
You pass not away.
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