The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8)

BOOK I

THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN

S. PATRIC.

YOU who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known three centuries, poets sing, Of dalliance with a demon thing.

OISIN.

Sad to remember, sick with years, The swift innumerable spears, The horsemen with their floating hair, And bowls of barley, honey, and wine, And feet of maiden...