Beggar to Beggar Cried
William Butler Yeats
1865 to 1939
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'Time to put off the world and go somewhere
find my health again in the sea air,'
to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And make my soul my pate is bare.'
'And get a comfortable and house
To rid me of the devil in shoes,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And worse devil that is between my thighs.'
'And I'd marry with a comely lass,
She need not too comely - let it pass,'
Beggar to cried, being frenzy-struck,
'But there's a devil in a looking-glass.'
'Nor should she be too rich, because the
Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And cannot have humorous happy speech.'
'And there I'll grow respected my ease,
And hear amid the garden's nightly peace,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'The wind-blown clamor the barnacle-geese.'