Thomas MacDonagh

1 February 1878 - 3 May 1916 / Cloughjordan / Ireland

Ideal

Fragment of a perfect plan
Is the mortal life of man:
Beauty alone can make it whole,
Beauty alone can help the soul
To labour over the island span
Lying between seas that roll
Darkly, forward and behind:
Beauty beatific will bind
The mortal and the immortal mind.
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