| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47748 |
| QUOTATION: | In ancient shadows and twilights Where childhood had strayed, The worlds great sorrows were born And its heroes were made. In the lost boyhood of Judas Christ was betrayed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George William Russell [A.E.] (18671935), Irish poet, painter, journalist. Germinal, Vale and Other Poems (1931). |
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