The Celtic Twilight

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the

beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy

world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any

of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore

written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen,

and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

I have, however, been at no pains to s…