Delphi Complete Poetry and Plays of W. B. Yeats (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series) by Yeats W. B

Author:Yeats, W. B. [Yeats, W. B.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Published: 2012-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

YOUNG MAN Have you been set down there

To threaten all who come, and scare them off?

You seem as dried up as the leaves and sticks,

As though you had no part in life.

(The GUARDIAN OF THE WELL gives hawk cry again.) That cry!

There is that cry again. That woman made it,

But why does she cry out as the hawk cries?

OLD MAN It was her mouth, and yet not she, that cried.

It was that shadow cried behind her mouth;

And now I know why she has been so stupid

All the day through, and had such heavy eyes.

Look at her shivering now, the terrible life

Is slipping through her veins. She is possessed.

Who knows whom she will murder or betray

Before she awakes in ignorance of it all,

And gathers up the leaves? But they’ll be wet;

The water will have come and gone again;

That shivering is the sign. O, get you gone,

At any moment now I shall hear it bubble.

If you are good you will leave it. I am old,

And if I do not drink it now, will ever;

I have been watching all my life and maybe

Only a little cupful will bubble up.

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