The Dolls
William Butler Yeats
1865 to 1939
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A doll in the doll-maker's house
Looks at the and balls:
'That is an insult to us.'
the oldest of all the dolls
Who had seen, kept for show,
Generations of his sort,
Out-screams the shelf: 'Although
There's not a man can report
Evil this place,
The man and the woman bring
Hither our disgrace,
A noisy and filthy thing.'
Hearing groan and stretch
The doll-maker's wife is aware
Her has heard the wretch,
And crouched by the arm his chair,
She murmurs into his ear,
Head upon leant:
'My dear, my dear, oh dear,
It was accident.'
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