Page:The Land of Heart's Desire, Yeats, 1894.djvu/20

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You should not fill your head with foolish dreams.

What are you reading?

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How a Princess Edene,

A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard

A voice singing on a May eve like this,

And followed, half awake and half asleep,

Until she came into the land of faery,

Where nobody gets old and godly and grave,

Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,

Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue;

And she is still there, busied with a dance,

Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood,

Or where stars walk upon a mountain top.

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Persuade the colleen to put by the book:

My grandfather would mutter just such things,

And he was no judge of a dog or horse,

And any idle boy could blarney him.

Just speak your mind.