I saw how all the trembling ages past, Molded to her by deep and deeper breath, Neared to the hour when Beauty breathes her last And knows herself in death.
ATTRIBUTION:
George William Russell [A.E.] (1867–1935), Irish poet, painter, economist (pseudonym of George William Russell). The Great Breath (l. 9–12). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.
