Another Song Of A Fool

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Title:     Another Song Of A Fool
Author: William Butler Yeats [More Titles by Yeats]

This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.

Once he lived a schoolmaster
With a stark, denying look,
A string of scholars went in fear
Of his great birch and his great book.

Like the clangour of a bell,
Sweet and harsh, harsh and sweet,
That is how he learnt so well
To take the roses for his meat.

[The end]
William Butler Yeats's poem: Another Song Of A Fool

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