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Shepherd That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year	A
I wished before it ceased	B
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Goatherd Nor bird nor beast	B
Could make me wish for anything this day	C
Being old but that the old alone might die	D
And that would be against God's providence	E
Let the young wish But what has brought you here	F
Never until this moment have we met	G
Where my goats browse on the scarce grass or leap	H
From stone to Stone	I
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Shepherd I am looking for strayed sheep	H
Something has troubled me and in my rrouble	J
I let them stray I thought of rhyme alone	I
For rhme can beat a measure out of trouble	J
And make the daylight sweet once more but when	K
I had driven every rhyme into its Place	L
The sheep had gone from theirs	M
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Goatherd I know right well	J
What turned so good a shepherd from his charge	N
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Shepherd He that was best in every country sport	O
And every country craft and of us all	J
Most courteous to slow age and hasty youth	P
Is dead	Q
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Goatherd The boy that brings my griddle cake	R
Brought the bare news	S
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Shepherd He had thrown the crook away	C
And died in the great war beyond the sea	T
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Goatherd He had often played his pipes among my hills	U
And when he played it was their loneliness	V
The exultation of their stone that died	W
Under his fingers	X
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Shepherd I had it from his mother	Y
And his own flock was browsing at the door	Z
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Goatherd How does she bear her grief There is not a	A2
shepherd	B2
But grows more gentle when he speaks her name	C2
Remembering kindness done and how can I	D
That found when I had neither goat nor grazing	D2
New welcome and old wisdom at her fire	Y
Till winter blasts were gone but speak of her	Y
Even before his children and his wife	E2
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Shepherd She goes about her house erect and calm	F2
Between the pantry and the linen chest	G2
Or else at meadow or at grazing overlooks	H2
Her labouring men as though her darling lived	I2
But for her grandson now there is no change	J2
But such as I have Seen upon her face	L
Watching our shepherd sports at harvest time	K2
When her son's turn was over	Y
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Goatherd Sing your song	L2
I too have rhymed my reveries but youth	P
Is hot to show whatever it has found	M2
And till that's done can neither work nor wait	N2
Old goatherds and old goats if in all else	O2
Youth can excel them in accomplishment	P2
Are learned in waiting	D2
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Shepherd You cannot but have seen	Q2
That he alone had gathered up no gear	A
Set carpenters to work on no wide table	J
On no long bench nor lofty milking shed	Q
As others will when first they take possession	R2
But left the house as in his father's time	K2
As though he knew himself as it were a cuckoo	S2
No settled man And now that he is gone	T2
There's nothing of him left but half a score	Z
Of sorrowful austere sweet lofty pipe tunes	U2
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Goatherd You have put the thought in rhyme	K2
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Shepherd I worked all day	C
And when 'twas done so little had I done	R2
That maybe I am sorry' in plain prose	V2
Had Sounded better to your mountain fancy	T
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He sings	W2
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Like the speckled bird that steers	X2
Thousands of leagues oversea	T
And runs or a while half flies	Y2
On his yellow legs through our meadows	V2
He stayed for a while and we	T
Had scarcely accustomed our ears	X2
To his speech at the break of day	C
Had scarcely accustomed our eyes	Y2
To his shape at the rinsing pool	J
Among the evening shadows	V2
When he vanished from ears and eyes	Y2
I might have wished on the day	C
He came but man is a fool '	-
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Goatherd You sing as always of the natural life	E2
And I that made like music in my youth	P
Hearing it now have sighed for that young man	Z2
And certain lost companions of my own	I
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Shepherd They say that on your barren mountain ridge	A3
You have measured out the road that the soul treads	B3
When it has vanished from our natural eyes	Y2
That you have talked with apparitions	C3
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Goatherd Indeed	D3
My daily thoughts since the first stupor of youth	P
Have found the path my goats' feet cannot find	E3
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Shepherd Sing for it may be that your thoughts have	F3
plucked	G3
Some medicable herb to make our grief	H3
Less bitter	Y
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Goatherd They have brought me from that ridge	A3
Seed pods and flowers that are not all wild poppy	T
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Sings	W2
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He grows younger every second	I3
That were all his birthdays reckoned	I3
Much too solemn seemed	J3
Because of what he had dreamed	J3
Or the ambitions that he served	K3
Much too solemn and reserved	K3
Jaunting journeying	D2
To his own dayspring	D2
He unpacks the loaded pern	I
Of all 'twas pain or joy to learn	I
Of all that he had made	L3
The outrageous war shall fade	L3
At some old winding whitethorn root	M3
He'll practise on the shepherd's flute	M3
Or on the close cropped grass	N3
Court his shepherd lass	N3
Or put his heart into some game	C2
Till daytime playtime seem the same	C2
Knowledge he shall unwind	E3
Through victories of the mind	E3
Till clambering at the cradle side	W
He dreams himself hsi mother's pride	W
All knowledge lost in trance	O3
Of sweeter ignorance '	-
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Shepherd When I have shut these ewes and this old ram	P3
Into the fold we'll to the woods and there	Q3
Cut out our rhymes on strips of new torn bark	D2
But put no name and leave them at her door	Z
To know the mountain and the valley have grieved	R3
May be a quiet thought to wife and mother	Y
And children when they spring up shoulder high	D

William Butler Yeats

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