We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit’s fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
ATTRIBUTION:
George William Russell [A.E.] (1867–1935), Irish poet, painter, economist (pseud. Of George William Russell). Immortality (l. 1–4). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892–1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
