[lbo-talk] A few fragments

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Mon Feb 20 14:42:20 PST 2017


I remember being gobsmacked years ago when I saw the original in St Patrick's. Ignoramus that I was, I hadn't know the Yeats version was a *translation*.

On 2/20/17 5:17 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
> Savage indignation there
> Cannot lacerate his breast...
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> ----- Original Message -----
> Swift has sailed into his rest.
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> On 2/20/17 3:41 PM, JOANNA A. wrote:
>> ...the small rain down can rain.
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>> Christ, that my love were in my arms, and I in my bed again.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> If design govern in a thing so small
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>> . . .my pulse, like a soft drum
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>> But still I love thee without art
>> Ancient person of my heart
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>> Gull against the wind
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>> We should like to know how that was done
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>> Their eyes, their ancient glittering eyes, are gay
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>> Western wind, when wilt thou blow
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>> And take the winds of march with beauty
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>> God said, let Newton be, and all was light
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>> This filthy simile, this beastly line
>> Quite turns my stomach
>> P. So does flattery mine
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>> A girl who knew all Dante once
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>> For a moment she rested against me
>> Like a swallow half blown to the wall
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>> Die early and avoid the fate
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>> To knock, that a Blunt should open
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>> A burnt match skating in a urinal
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>> That scalds me now-that scalds me now!
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>> Thou last great prophet of tautology
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>> The music in my heart I bore
>> Long after it was heard no more
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>> The wanton troopers riding by
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>> Oh thou Dalhousie, the great God of War
>> Lieutenant-Colonel to the Earl of Mar
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>> They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
>> Through Eden took thir solitarie way.
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>> Light fighting for speed
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>> Now my old bawd is dead
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>> Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
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