Ascetic by Patrick Kavanagh

That in the end
I may find
Something not sold for a penny
In the slums of Mind.

That I may break
With these hands
The bread of wisdom that grows
In the other lands.

For this, for this
Do I wear
The rags of hunger and climb
The unending stair.

From: http://www.tcd.ie/English/patrickkavanagh/ascetic.html

Date: 1936

By: Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)

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