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I	A
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Swear by what the sages spoke	B
Round the Mareotic Lake	C
That the Witch of Atlas knew	D
Spoke and set the cocks a crow	E
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Swear by those horsemen by those women	F
Complexion and form prove superhuman	F
That pale long visaged company	G
That air in immortality	G
Completeness of their passions won	F
Now they ride the wintry dawn	H
Where Ben Bulben sets the scene	I
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Here's the gist of what they mean	I
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II	A
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Many times man lives and dies	J
Between his two eternities	J
That of race and that of soul	K
And ancient Ireland knew it all	L
Whether man die in his bed	M
Or the rifle knocks him dead	M
A brief parting from those dear	N
Is the worst man has to fear	N
Though grave diggers' toil is long	O
Sharp their spades their muscles strong	O
They but thrust their buried men	P
Back in the human mind again	P
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III	A
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You that Mitchel's prayer have heard	Q
'Send war in our time O Lord '	-
Know that when all words are said	M
And a man is fighting mad	R
Something drops from eyes long blind	S
He completes his partial mind	S
For an instant stands at ease	J
Laughs aloud his heart at peace	J
Even the wisest man grows tense	J
With some sort of violence	J
Before he can accomplish fate	T
Know his work or choose his mate	T
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IV	-
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Poet and sculptor do the work	U
Nor let the modish painter shirk	U
What his great forefathers did	V
Bring the soul of man to God	W
Make him fill the cradles right	X
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Measurement began our might	X
Forms a stark Egyptian thought	Y
Forms that gentler phidias wrought	Y
Michael Angelo left a proof	-
On the Sistine Chapel roof	-
Where but half awakened Adam	Z
Can disturb globe trotting Madam	Z
Till her bowels are in heat	A2
proof that there's a purpose set	B2
Before the secret working mind	S
Profane perfection of mankind	S
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Quattrocento put in paint	C2
On backgrounds for a God or Saint	C2
Gardens where a soul's at ease	J
Where everything that meets the eye	A
Flowers and grass and cloudless sky	A
Resemble forms that are or seem	D2
When sleepers wake and yet still dream	D2
And when it's vanished still declare	E2
With only bed and bedstead there	E2
That heavens had opened	F2
Gyres run on	G2
When that greater dream had gone	H
Calvert and Wilson Blake and Claude	H2
Prepared a rest for the people of God	W
Palmer's phrase but after that	I2
Confusion fell upon our thought	Y
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V	-
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Irish poets earn your trade	J2
Sing whatever is well made	J2
Scorn the sort now growing up	K2
All out of shape from toe to top	L2
Their unremembering hearts and heads	J
Base born products of base beds	J
Sing the peasantry and then	P
Hard riding country gentlemen	M2
The holiness of monks and after	N2
Porter drinkers' randy laughter	N2
Sing the lords and ladies gay	O2
That were beaten into the clay	O2
Through seven heroic centuries	J
Cast your mind on other days	J
That we in coming days may be	-
Still the indomitable Irishry	N2
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VI	A
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Under bare Ben Bulben's head	M
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid	J2
An ancestor was rector there	N2
Long years ago a church stands near	N2
By the road an ancient cross	J
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No marble no conventional phrase	J
On limestone quarried near the spot	P2
By his command these words are cut	Q2
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Cast a cold eye	A
On life on death	R2
Horseman pass by	A

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