And thinking of that fit of grief or rage               #31
                            I look upon one child or t'other there
                            And wonder if she stood so at that age --
                            For even daughters of the swan can share
                            Something of every paddler's heritage --
                            And had that colour upon cheek or hair,
                            And thereupon my heart is driven wild:
                            She stands before me as a living child.

                            Her present image floats into the mind --
                            Did Quattrocento finger fashion it
                            Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind
                            And took a mess of shadows for its meat?
                            And I though never of Ledaean kind
                            Had pretty plumage once -- enough of that,
                            Better to smile on all that smile, and show
                            There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow.
                                                                                 --W. B. Yeats
 

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