DREAM OF A BLESSED SPIRIT
by: W.B. Yeats
- LL the heavy days are over;
- Leave the body's coloured pride
- Underneath the grass and clover,
- With the feet laid side by side.
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- One with her are mirth and duty;
- Bear the gold-embroidered dress,
- For she needs not her sad beauty,
- To the scented oaken press.
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- Hers the kiss of Mother Mary,
- The long hair is on her face;
- Still she goes with footsteps wary
- Full of earth's old timid grace.
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- With white feet of angels seven
- Her white feet go glimmering;
- And above the deep of heaven,
- Flame on flame, and wing on wing.
'Dream of a Blessed Spirit' is reprinted
from An Anthology of Modern Verse. Ed. A. Methuen. London:
Methuen & Co., 1921. |
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