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Okay, Gregory, it’s hero worship from A to Z for me too...almost. I can even sigh over the prosy self-pity in LL 1-4 of the last stanza: “This is how I write” — an apologia that verges on the later despair about the desertion of his “circus animals,” although one such as I thinks it can be seen as an irrelevant (or at least diffuse) diversion that takes the poem in a brand new direction to it’s terrific metaphysical conclusion. I could wish he had done better. (Like I wish Sibelius’s last symphony weren’t so dashed repetitive in its final movement.) I see it as a dry bridge of filler without much nourishment for Maud Gonne or anyone else. But that “drug” is a gumball. I have to tie it to the “honey” of what I presume is his retrospective view of the hum of love. That link holds, but it is forged by making the audience think too much. Unless he means something else completely.

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