Let thy young wanderer dream on: Call him not home. A door opens, a breath a voice From the ancient room, Speaks to him now. Be it dark or bright He is knit with his doom.
ATTRIBUTION:
George William Russell [A.E.](18671935), Irish poet, painter, economist. Germinal (l. 3742). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 12501918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.