I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.
ATTRIBUTION:
J.M. (John Millington) Synge (1871–1909), Irish dramatist. Still south I went and west and south again (l. 24–25). . .
Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892–1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
