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...well.’ THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL I SAT on cushioned otter skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, 14 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS And shook at I... ...made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this, Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, w... ...s difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. There’s something ails our colt That must,... ...ulent Italy should draw Delight in Art whose end is peace, In logic and in natural law By sucking at the dugs of Greece. Your open hand but shows our ... ...aly should draw Delight in Art whose end is peace, In logic and in natural law By sucking at the dugs of Greece. Your open hand but shows our loss, R... ...2 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely i... ...n the day He came, but man is a fool.’ Goatherd. You sing as always of the natural life, And I that made like music in my youth Hearing it now have si... ...e measured out the road that the soul treads When it has vanished from our natural eyes; That you have talked with apparitions. Goatherd. Indeed My da... ...hat mysterious, always brimming lake Where those that have obeyed the holy law Paddle and are perfect. Leave unchanged The hands that I have kissed, F...

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... all this. It really was strange to see an old man who had so outlived the natural spar, alone, with no one to look after him, especially as he looked... ... him a scandalous renown. He scattered money without stint in spite of his natural economy , which almost amounted to niggardliness; he lost money at ... ...f stealing money; why, he called him a thief. You know why they’ve gone to law with one another…. Good heavens! and that’s not the worst. Do you know,... ...er will take him with him to the young lady. And he wrote it so simply, so naturally, as if it were nothing at all…. What if he really has gone to her... ...w how to define, and some- thing passing all understanding and outside the natural order of things, which yet may take shape this very minute, as thou... ...er; he has been injured by you! Respect his pride - it’s justifiable, it’s natural! Y ou ought to do it. Only try, and he will forgive you uncondition... ...themselves to lofty and noble contempt instead of practically applying the law to the case if it can be applied. That young mother, for instance, she ... ...o be grateful to me that I haven’t treated her as I ought to have done, by law. Let me tell you, my poet, that the law protects the peace of the famil... ...se every minute, he always says ‘I’m going out on business, I must see the law- yer,’ and this morning he locked himself up in his study. ‘I have to w...