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James JoyceJames Joyce

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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.
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James Joyce

1882 - 1941/Male/IrishA novelist, short story writer, and poet, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce contributed to the modernist avant-garde.

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