Friday, December 28, 2012

TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND





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

2 comments:

  1. You will! You WILL!

    The 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!

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    1. Ah, Yeats...and Mike Scott's tune now dances in my head! Thanks for the encouragement...

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