William Butler Yeats

The Herald, November, 2, 1918 (p.2)

The distinguished poet has purchased a castle in the Co. Galway at Ballylea, near Gort, and he and his wife resided there during a great part of the summer. They have now left it for Dublin. Mr. Yeats continues to write excellent poetry and from his latest work, the Wanderings of Oisin, we take the following illustrative passages;

We seek for slumbering trout,
And whispering in their ears,
Give them unquiet dreams,
Leaning softly out,
From ferns that drop, their tears,
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child,
To the waters and the wild,
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping that you can understand.

Away with you He's going,
The solemn eyed;
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest,
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand.