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. Chamber Music. 33. Now, O Now, in This Brown Land
2. A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight
3. Chamber Music. 31. O, It Was Out by Donnycarney
4. Chamber Music. 4. When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven
5. Chamber Music. 6. I Would in That Sweet Bosom Be

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