BEAUTIFUL LOFTY THlNGS
 
 BEAUTIFUL lofty things:  O'Leary's noble head;
 My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd:
 "This Land of Saints,' and then as the applause died out,
 "Of plaster Saints'; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
 Standish O'Grady supporting himself between the tables
 Speaking to a drunken audience high nonsensical words;
 Augusta Gregory seated at her great ormolu table,
 Her eightieth winter approaching:  "Yesterday he threatened my life.
 I told him that nightly from six to seven I sat at this table,
 The blinds drawn up'; Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
 Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head:
 All the Olympians; a thing never known again.