Tom At Cruachan

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

On Cruachan's plain slept he That must sing in a rhyme What most could shake his soul: 'The stallion Eternity Mounted the mare of Time, 'Gat the foal of the world.'

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