Happens Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

“How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.”

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Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were not Christian.

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