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From: mary moody <>
Subject: Re: [Irish-American] WB Yeats Poem; The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:04:29 -0700
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Yes Pat, it sure does. Mary

Pat McKenna wrote:

> --- Pat Connors <> wrote: > >
> > >
> > >Wait 'til Pat Connors posts the rest of this
> > lovely little piece. It'll set
> > >your soul on fire.
> > >
> >
> My pleasure Pat, Mary and co. I'll drop a few more
> Irish poems and poets into this wonderful melting pot
> if anyone wants to hear the special sounds of Irish
> poets at work...
>
> The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
>
> I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
> And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles
> made:
> Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the
> honey-bee,
> And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
>
> And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes
> dropping slow,
> Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the
> cricket sings;
> There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple
> glow,
> And evening full of the linnet's wings.
>
> I will arise and go now, for always night and day
> I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the
> shore;
> While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements
> grey,
> I hear it in the deep heart's core.
>
>
> Doesn't it just get inside your head...
> Pat Mc Kenna
>
> >
> >
> >
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