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Silenced by death in the grave W B Yeats couldn't save Why did you stand there' Where you sickened in time But I know by now Why did you sit here? In the GRAVEW.B. Yeats " Second" Why should I blame her That she filled my days With misery or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men violent ways Or hurled the little street upon the great Had they but courage Equals to desire Sad that Maud Gonne Couldn't stay But she had Mac Bride anyway And you sit here with me On the isle Inisfree And you writing down everything But i know by now Why did you sit here In the grave... Why should I blame her Had they but courage equals to desire This song has been written with inspiration from theses William Butler Yeats poems:------------------------ William Butler Yeats(1865 - 1939)------------------------THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREEI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,I hear it in the deep heart's core.NO SECOND TROY Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this. Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?
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