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“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W. B. Yeats 🇮🇪 (13 Jun 186528 Jan 1939)
I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree
And a small cabin build there of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean rows will I have there a hive for the honey bee
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer and noon a purple glow
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway or on the pavements gray
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.