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1865–1939

TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-GNO

William Butler Yeats

Come play with me; Why should you run Through the shaking tree As though I'd a gun

To strike you dead? When all I would do Is to scratch your head And let you go.

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TO A SQUIRREL AT KYLE-NA-GNO · William Butler Yeats · Poetry Cove