William Butler Yeats (Уильям Батлер Йейтс)

The Choice

The intellect of man is forced to choose
perfection of the life, or of the work,
And if it take the second must refuse
A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
When all that story's finished, what's the news?
In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. 

1. On a Political Prisoner
2. Me Peacock
3. The Municipal Gallery Revisited
4. At Galway Races
5. Dream of a Blessed Spirit

Lucy Montgomery (Люси Монтгомери) The Choice ("Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen")

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