Responsibilities, and other poems

by W. B. Yeats

There was one there—there by the threshold stone, waiting there; and he said, 'Go in, Teigue, and tell him everything that he asks you. He will give you a penny if you tell him.'

Wise Man

I know enough, that know God's will prevails.

Fool

Waiting till the moment had come—That is what the one out there was saying, but I might tell you what you asked. That is what he was saying.

Wise Man

Be silent. May God's will prevail on the instant,

Although His will be my eternal pain.

I have no question: