TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND

by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)

      ANCE there upon the shore;
      What need have you to care
      For wind or water's roar?
      And tumble out your hair
      That the salt drops have wet;
      Being young you have not known
      The fool's triumph, nor yet
      Love lost as soon as won,
      Nor the best labourer dead
      And all the sheaves to bind.
      What need have you to dread
      The monstrous crying of wind?

"To a Child Dancing in the Wind" is reprinted from Responsibilities. W.B. Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1916.

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