The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition by William Butler Yeats

Author:William Butler Yeats
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2015-04-23T05:00:00+00:00

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In Tara’s Halls.

A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls

Said to the woman on his knees, ‘Lie still,

My hundredth year is at an end. I think

That something is about to happen, I think

That the adventure of old age begins.

To many women I have said “lie still”

And given everything that a woman needs

A roof, good clothes, passion, love perhaps

But never asked for love, should I ask that

I shall be old indeed.’

Thereon the king

Went to the sacred house and stood between

The golden plough and harrow and spoke aloud

That all attendants and the casual crowd might hear:

‘God I have loved, but should I ask return

Of God or women the time were come to die.’

He bade, his hundred and first year at end,

Diggers and carpenters make grave and coffin,

Saw that the grave was deep, the coffin sound,

Summoned the generations of his house

Lay in the coffin, stopped his breath and died.

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