A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

I have pointed out the yelling pack, The hare leap to the wood, And when I pass a compliment Rejoice as lover should At the drooping of an eye, At the mantling of the blood.

Then suddenly my heart is wrung By her distracted air And I remember wildness lost And after, swept from there, Am set down standing in the wood At the death of the hare.

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