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The Tower

BY

W. B. Yeats

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
1928

CONTENTS

Sailing to Byzantium

I

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another’s arms, birds in the trees,
—Those dying generations—at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish flesh or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten born and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unaging intellect.