A Prayer for My Daughter By William Butler Yeats ... I - TopicsExpress



          

A Prayer for My Daughter By William Butler Yeats ... I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower, And under the arches of the bridge, and scream In the elms above the flooded stream; Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to frenzied drums,... May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a strangers eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. And may her bridegroom bring her to a house Where alls accustomed, ceremonies;...
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:07:47 +0000

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