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Renunciation (Author: Pádraic H. Pearse)
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- 1] Naked I saw thee,
2] O beauty of beauty,
3] And I blinded my eyes
4] For fear I should fail.
- 5] I heard thy music,
6] O melody of melody,
7] And I closed my ears
8] For fear I should falter.
- 9] I tasted thy mouth,
10] O sweetness of sweetness,
11] And I hardened my heart
12] For fear of my slaying.
- 13] I blinded my eyes,
14] And I closed my ears,
15] I hardened my heart
16] And I smothered my desire.
- 17] I turned my back
18] On the vision I had shaped,
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19] And to this road before me
20] I turned my face.
- 21] I have turned my face
22] To this road before me,
23] To the deed that I see
24] And the death I shall die.