If you have revisited the town, thin Shade,Whether to look upon your monument(I wonder if the builder has been paid)Or happier thoughted when the day is spentTo drink of that salt breath out of the seaWhen grey gulls flit about instead of men,And the gaunt houses put on majesty:Let these content you and be gone again;For they are at their old tricks yet....
W. B. Yeats - Responsibilities and Other Poems
Responsibilities and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats
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If you have revisited the town, thin Shade,Whether to look upon your monument(I wonder if the builder has been paid)Or happier thoughted when the day is spentTo drink of that salt breath out of the seaWhen grey gulls flit about instead of men,And the gaunt houses put on majesty:Let these content you and be gone again;For they are at their old tricks yet.