I will! I will dance again upon this shore as I did once before...
TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND
BY W.B. YEATS
DANCE there upon the shore; | |
What need have you to care | |
For wind or water’s roar? | |
And tumble out your hair | |
That the salt drops have wet; | |
Being young you have not known | |
The fool’s triumph, nor yet | |
Love lost as soon as won, | |
Nor the best labourer dead | |
And all the sheaves to bind. | |
What need have you to dread | |
The monstrous crying of wind? | |
Photograph © Denise Sallee 2012 |
You will! You WILL!
ReplyDeleteThe girl goes dancing there
On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth
Grass plot of the garden;
Escaped from bitter youth,
Escaped out of her crowd,
Or out of her black cloud.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer!
Ah, Yeats...and Mike Scott's tune now dances in my head! Thanks for the encouragement...
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