Page:Ideas of Good and Evil, Yeats, 1903.djvu/315

The Autumn of the Body. length an old man wandering among enchanted islands, his return home at last, his slow-gathering vengeance, a flitting shape of a goddess, and a flight of arrows, and yet to make all of these so different things 'take light by mutual reflection, like an actual trail of fire over precious stones,' and become 'an entire word,' the signature or symbol of a mood of the divine imagination as imponderable as the horror of the forest or the silent thunder in the leaves.'

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