Fragments

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

I

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

II

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth. Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh.

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