Waking from the dream

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Published 20080603
ISBN: 9780733322822
Extent: 288 pp
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Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,
and fire made solid in the flinty stone,
thick-mass’d or scatter’d pebble, fire that fills
the breathless hour that lives in fire alone …
– Christopher Brennan, Poems 1913

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