A Way Of Escape

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Title:     A Way Of Escape
Author: George William Russell [More Titles by Russell]

There's a way of escape through the Gate of Sorrow,
A light at the end of the Path of Pain:
But our joy and our love can have no to-morrow,
And to drink is to sink to the earth again.

There is death in the breath when our lips draw nigher,
And we lay waste the plain for a flower to grow;
And we build up the tower of an hour's desire
With dust from the pit of its overthrow.

[The end]
George William Russell's poem: Way Of Escape

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