Poem by William Butler Yeats

Politics

HOW can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms! 

1. The Mask
2. On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature
3. The Wild Swans at Coole
4. To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
5. Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation

Alfred Tennyson Politics ("We move, the wheel must always move")

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