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Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Opinion is not worth a rush
Identifier
011812
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
I think we know who the knight, the dragon and the fair lady are given Yeats life...........
A description of the experience
W B Yeats – Collected Poems
Opinion is not worth a rush
In this altar piece the knight
Who grips his long spear so to push
That dragon through the fading light
Loved the lady; and it’s plain
The half dead dragon was her thought
That every morning rose again
And dug its claws and shrieked and fought.
Could the impossible come to pass
She would have time to turn her eyes
Her lover thought, upon the glass
And on the instant would grow wise