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 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead,

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

��905 The Lake Isle of Itmisfree

1WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made, Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping

slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket

sings;

Theie midnight 's all a-ghmmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore, While I stand on the roadwav, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

��904 Down by the S alley Gardens

DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet, She pass'd the salley gardens with little snow-white

feet.

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

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