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1865–1939

AT GALWAY RACES

William Butler Yeats

Out yonder, where the race course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, Riders upon the swift horses, The field that closes in behind:

We, too, had good attendance once, Hearers and hearteners of the work; Aye, horsemen for companions, Before the merchant and the clerk

Breathed on the world with timid breath. Sing on: sometime, and at some new moon, We'll learn that sleeping is not death, Hearing the whole earth change its tune,

Its flesh being wild, and it again Crying aloud as the race course is, And we find hearteners among men That ride upon horses.

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