Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

How should the world be luckier if this house, Where passion and precision have been one Time out of mind, became too ruinous To breed the lidleSs eye that loves the sun? And the sweet laughing eagle thoughts that grow Where wings have memory of wings, and all That comes of the best knit to the best? Although Mean roof-trees were the sturdier for its fall. How should their luck run high enough to reach The gifts that govern men, and after these To gradual Time's last gift, a written speech Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?

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  1. Sabine New Zealand

    Plath?

    This poem was written by WB Yeats, not Plath.

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