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Pictures of a poetic period
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times ...according to Henry James...the East through Laurence...spot for the Irish, such as...lines: "Darkness./I stop to watch a star shine in a boghole - /A star no longer...Faber Book of Irish ...

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