The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 4 (of 8) / The Hour-glass. Cathleen ni Houlihan. The Golden Helmet. The Irish Dramatic Movement

by W. B. Yeats

(O my dear, my dear).

‘Give me your wife,’ said he,

(O the brown and the yellow beer!)

‘Till the sun goes down and an hour of the clock’

(O my dear, my dear).

‘Good-bye, good-bye, my husband,’

(O the brown and the yellow beer!)

‘For a year and a day by the clock of the sun’

(O my dear, my dear).

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