View From Yeats' Tower

Posted by d.eirdre (Athlone, Ireland) on 17 February 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

Thoor Ballylee, County Galway

The Tower
-- William Butler Yeats

What shall I do with this absurdity—
O heart, O troubled heart—this caricature,
Decrepit age that has been tied to me
As to a dog’s tail?
Never had I more
Excited, passionate, fantastical
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That more expected the impossible.

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