More Yeats

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Here's another Yeats poem that I like. It is from a longer poem called

"Vacillation".

 

My fiftieth year had come and gone,

I say, a solitary man,

In a crowded London shop,

An open book and empty cup

On the marble table top.

 

While on the shop and street I gazed

My body of a sudden blazed;

And twenty minutes more or less

It seemed, so great my happiness,

That I was bless-ed and could bless.

 

 

- David