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Yeats, W B - Collected poems - The night has fallen; not a sound
Identifier
003255
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Yeats is describing them making love, but the implication is that they are doing it for spiritual experience
A description of the experience
W B Yeats – Collected Poems
The night has fallen; not a sound
In the forbidden sacred grove
Unless a petal hit the ground
Nor any human sight within it.
But the crushed grass where we have lain
And the moon is wilder every minute
O Soloman! Let us try again