The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 3 (of 8) / The Countess Cathleen. The Land of Heart's Desire. The Unicorn from the Stars

by W. B. Yeats

Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head

Would not lie on the breast or his lips on the hair

Of the woman that he loves, Until he dies;

Although the rushes and the fowl of the air

Cry of his love with their pitiful cries.

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THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS.

[THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS].

W.B.Y.