Poem by William Butler Yeats

The Spur

YOU think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song? 

1. Tom at Cruachan
2. Parting
3. Under Ben Bulben
4. Love's Loneliness
5. Beautiful Lofty Things

Ella Wilcox The Spur ("I asked the rock beside the road what joy existence lent")

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