Edna St. Vincent Millay - Paul Smith Memorial - Charlemont, Dublin, IE
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Two stanzas from Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem The Return at a granite block remembering a local writer, Paul Smith (1920-1997).
Waymark Code: WMFWEC
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Date Posted: 12/08/2012
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The simple memorial is set in the grass on the bank of Grand Canal near Charlemont LUAS bridge.
The quote reads:
Earth does not understand her child,
Who from the loud gregarious town
Returns, depleted and defiled,
To the still woods, to fling him down.
Earth can not count the sons she bore:
The wounded lynx, the wounded man
Come trailing blood unto her door;
She shelters both as best she can.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American poet and feminist. The poem is about a death and it was published in Wine from These Grapes (1934).
Address:
Grand Canal
Dublin 6
Ireland
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