ALL things uncomely and broken, a
The cry of a child by the roadway,
The heavy steps of the ploughman,
Are wronging your image that bloss
The wrong of unshapely things is a

‘O cruel Death, give three things
Sang a bone upon the shore;
‘A child found all a child can lac
Whether of pleasure or of rest,
Upon the abundance of my breast’:

I SAT on cushioned otter-skin:
My word was law from Ith to Emain
And shook at Inver Amergin
The hearts of the world-troubling
And drove tumult and war away

That is no country for old men. T
In one another’s arms, birds in th
—Those dying generations—at their
The salmon—falls, the mackerel—cro
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all

PARNELL’S FUNERAL
UNDER the Great Comedian’s tomb
A bundle of tempestuous cloud is b
About the sky; where that is clear
Brightness remains; a brighter sta

THERE where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping hors
The crowd that closes in behind:
We, too, had good attendance once,

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the he

A SPECKLED cat and a tame hare
Eat at my hearthstone
And sleep there;
And both look up to me alone
For learning and defence

A Dramatic Poem
The deck of an ancient ship. At
with a large square sail hiding a
on that side. The tiller is at th
coming through an opening in the b

THE GYRES! the gyres! Old Roc
Things thought too long can be no
For beauty dies of beauty, worth o
And ancient lineaments are blotted
Irrational streams of blood are st