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Auden, W H - Earth, receive an honoured guest: William Yeats is laid to rest
Identifier
000388
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
In Memory of W B Yeats
Earth, receive an honoured guest:
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Irish vessel lie
Emptied of its poetry.
In the nightmare of the dark
All the dogs of Europe bark,
And the living nations wait,
Each sequestered in its hate;
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
Still persuade us to rejoice;
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress;
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
The source of the experience
Auden, W HConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Unrequited loveSuppressions
Communing with natureLOVE
Love with visualisation
Reducing threats
Squash the big I am