William Butler Yeats - Beggar To Beggar Cried lyrics

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William Butler Yeats - Beggar To Beggar Cried lyrics

'TIME to put off the world and go somewhere And find my health again in the sea air,' Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, 'And make my soul before my pate is bare.- 'And get a comfortable wife and house To rid me of the devil in my shoes,' Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, 'And the worse devil that is between my thighs.' And though I'd marry with a comely la**, She need not be too comely -- let it pa**,' Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, 'But there's a devil in a looking-gla**.' 'Nor should she be too rich, because the rich Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,' Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, 'And cannot have a humorous happy speech.' 'And there I'll grow respected at my ease, And hear amid the garden's nightly peace.' Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, 'The wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese.'