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“The Attach on ‘The Playboy of the Western World’” by W. B. Yeats 🇮🇪 (13 Jun 1865 – 28 Jan 1939)
Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
From thoroughfare to thoroughfare,
While that great Juan galloped by;
And like these to rail and sweat
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.
1907.
From Responsibilities and Other Poems (1914)