The Attack on the "Playboy of the Western World," 1907
William Butler Yeats
1865 to 1939
Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
From thoroughfare to thoroughfare,
While that great Juan galloped by;
And like these to rail and sweat
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.
William Butler Yeats's The Attack on the "Playboy of the Western World," 1907
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