Poem by James Joyce

Bahnhofstrasse

The eyes that mock me sign the way
Whereto I pass at eve of day. 

Grey way whose violet signals are
The trysting and the twining star. 

Ah star of evil! star of pain!
Highhearted youth comes not again 

Nor old heart’s wisdom yet to know
The signs that mock me as I go.

1. Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba
2. Chamber Music. 21. He Who Hath Glory Lost, Nor Hath
3. Chamber Music. 25. Lightly Come or Lightly Go
4. Flood
5. Tutto

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