The Dolls
William Butler Yeats
1865 to 1939
Track 1
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There's not a man can report
And crouched by the arm of his chair,
It was an accident.'
She murmurs into his ear,
'My dear, my dear, oh dear,
Her husband has heard the wretch,
A doll in the doll-maker's house
Who had seen, being kept for show,
Hither to our disgrace,
'That is an insult to us.'
Hearing him groan and stretch
But the oldest of all the dolls
Evil of this place,
The man and the woman bring
Looks at the cradle and balls:
Out-screams the whole shelf: 'Although
The doll-maker's wife is aware
Head upon shoulder leant:
Generations of his sort,
A noisy and filthy thing.'
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