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Real Name: Lori Kanter
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Works of William Butler Yeats
A Lover's Quarrel Among the Fairies
A moonlight moor. Fairies leading a child.
Male Fairies: Do not fear us, earthly maid! We will lead you hand in hand By the willows in the glade, By the gorse on the high land,
By the pasture where the lambs Shall awake with lonely bleat, Shivering closer to their dams From the rustling of our feet.
You will with the banshee chat, And will find her good at heart, Sitting on a warm smooth mat In the green hill's inmost part.
We will bring a crown of gold Bending humbly every knee, Now thy great white doll to hold -- Oh, so happy would we be!
Ah it is so very big, And we are so very small! So we dance a fairy jig To the fiddle's rise and fall.
Yonder see the fairy girls All their jealousy display, Lift their chins and toss their curls, Lift their chins and turn away.
See you, brother, Cranberry Fruit -- He! ho! ho! the merry blade! -- Hugs and pets and pats yon newt, Teasing every wilful maid.
Girl Fairies: Lead they one with foolish care, Deafening us with idle sound -- One whose breathing shakes the air, One whose footfall shakes the ground.
Come you, Coltsfoot, Mousetail, come! Come I know where, far away, Owls there be whom age makes numb; Come and tease them till the day.
Puffed like puff-balls on a tree, Scoff they at the modern earth -- Ah! how large mice used to be In their days of youthful mirth!
Come, beside a sandy lake, Feed a fire with stems of grass; Roasting berries steam and shake -- Talking hours swiftly pass!
Long before the morning fire Wake the larks upon the green. Yonder foolish ones will tire Of their tall, new-fangled queen.
They will lead her home again To the orchard-circled farm; At the house of weary men Raise the door-pin with alarm,
And come kneeling on one knee, While we shake our heads and scold This their wanton treachery, And our slaves be as of old.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Into the Twilight
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and twilight grey; Though hope fall from you and love decay, Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue. Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will; And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight; And love is less kind than the grey twilight, And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Seven Sages
The First. My great-grandfather spoke to Edmund Burke In Grattan's house. The Second. My great-grandfather shared A pot-house bench with Oliver Goldsmith once. The Third. My great-grandfather's father talked of music, Drank tar-water with the Bishop of Cloyne. The Fourth. But mine saw Stella once. The Fifth. Whence came our thought? The Sixth. From four great minds that hated Whiggery. The Fifth. Burke was a Whig. The Sixth. Whether they knew or not, Goldsmith and Burke, Swift and the Bishop of Cloyne All hated Whiggery; but what is Whiggery? A levelling, rancorous, rational sort of mind That never looked out of the eye of a saint Or out of drunkard's eye. The Seventh. All's Whiggery now, But we old men are massed against the world. The First. American colonies, Ireland, France and India Harried, and Burke's great melody against it. The Second. Oliver Goldsmith sang what he had seen, Roads full of beggars, cattle in the fields, But never saw the trefoil stained with blood, The avenging leaf those fields raised up against it. The Fourth. The tomb of Swift wears it away. The Third. A voice Soft as the rustle of a reed from Cloyne That gathers volume; now a thunder-clap. The Sixtb. What schooling had these four? The Seventh. They walked the roads Mimicking what they heard, as children mimic; They understood that wisdom comes of beggary.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To a Child Dancing in the Wind
Dance there upon the shore; What need have you to care For wind or water’s roar? And tumble out your hair That the salt drops have wet; Being young you have not known The fool’s triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best laborer dead And all the sheaves to bind. What need have you to dread The monstrous crying of the wind?
Has no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learn’d? Or warned you how despairing The moths are when they are burned, I could have warned you, but you are young, So we speak a different tongue.
You will take whatever’s offered And dream that all the world’s a friend, Suffer as your mother suffered, Be as broken in the end.
But I am old and you are young, And I speak a barbarous tongue.
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