《The Secret Rose》简介: ，DEDICATION TO A.E. as for living, our servants will do that for us. ??_villiers de lisle adam.helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept, and wondered why she had twice been carried away.??leonardo da vinci.my dear a.e.??i dedicate this book to you because, whether you think it well or ill written, you will sympathize with the sorrows and the ecstasies of its personages, perhaps even more than i do myself.although i wrote these stories at different times and in different manners, and without any definite plan, they have but one subject, the war of spiritual with natural order; and how can i dedicate such a book to anyone but to you, the one poet of modern ireland who has moulded a spiritual ecstasy into verse? my friends in ire