Poetry Writer's Lament After William Butler Yeats A Man Young And Old Vi His Memories Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

(29 February 2012)

Line 'who'd future scope betray' is used in the emulated cento to be found incorparated within Ploughman Homeward Plods His Weary Way And No Birds Sing - Cento per Cento Cento

We should be hidden from their eyes,
Being but holy shows
And bodies broken like a thorn
Whereon the bleak north blows,
To think of buried Hector
And that none living knows.

The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They'd sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray;
My arms are like the twisted thorn
And yet there beauty lay;

The first of all the tribe lay there
And did such pleasure take,
She who had brought great Hector down
And put all Troy to wreck,
That she cried into this ear,
'Strike me if I shriek.'
William Butler Yeats