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Hollow Hill (part 6)

Dreamed 1940 by Kathleen Raine


One night in a dream
The poet who had died a year ago
Led me up the ancient stair
Of an ancestral tower of stone.
Towards us out of the dark blew such sweet air
It was the warm breath of the spirit, I knew,
Fragrant with wild thyme that grew
In childhood's fields; he led me on,
Touched a thin partition, and was gone.
Beyond the fallen barrier
Bright over sweet meadows rose the sun.

EDITOR'S NOTE

Given the Irish setting of this six-part set of poems, the stone tower, and the winding stair, the poet is surely Yeats, dating Raine's dream to 1940.

SOURCE: Collected Poems by Kathleen Raine, 2001, p. 120


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