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Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Would I could cast a sail on the water
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W B Yeats – Collected Poems
Would I could cast a sail on the water
Where many a king has gone
And many a king’s daughter
And alight at the comely trees and the lawn
The playing upon pipes and the dancing
And learn that the best thing is
To change my loves while dancing
And pay but a kiss for a kiss
I would find by the edge of that water
The collar bone of a hare
Worn thin by the lapping of water
And pierce it through with a gimlet, and stare
At the old bitter world where they marry in churches
And laugh over the untroubled water
At all who marry in churches
Through the white thin bone of a hare