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The unknown God
by George W. Russell
Far up the dim twilight
Flutter’d moth wings of vapor and flame;
The lights danced over the mountains,
Star after star they came.
The lights grew thicker unheeded,
For silent and still were we;
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty,
Our eyes could never see.
Recordings
Gardner Read: The Art of Song
(William Blake, Frances Frost, James Joyce, Gardner Read, Henry Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Jean Starr Untermeyer)
1999