The Lake Isle of Innisfree
A speaker standing on grey London pavement hears lake water lapping and resolves to go and build a small cabin of clay and wattles on an island in Lough Gill. Nine bean-rows, a hive for the honey-bee, and a peace that comes dropping slow from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings. Yeats traced the impulse to a passage of Thoreau his father had read aloud to him, and spent the rest of his life half-embarrassed by how often it was recited back at him.
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