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