James Clarence Mangan was an Irish poet of some obscurity. He is mostly renowned for "Dark Rosaleen" and "A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century."
However, "Twenty Golden Years Ago" is also one of his better-known writings. It is a poem of moderate length that appeals to the wanderings of an older mind. Its theme is one of where thoughts may go in the drearier times of the "winter" of old age. There are thoughts of what was vs. what has become. There are regrets about what one had in youth and did not appreciate. In it, the minstrel contemplates the many places, times, and people that he had and now finds lost to him.
Try as I might, I could not find the poem titled "Time of the Harmed Idea."
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