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Thread #20355   Message #3084326
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
28-Jan-11 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Sally Gardens (W.B. Yeats)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Salley Gardens (W.B. Yeats)
Mentioned with corrected words by Malcolm Douglas, but the original as written by Yeats not posted.

Down by the Salley Gardens
W. B. Yeats

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

Ed. A. Methuen, 1921, An Anthology of Modern Verse, Methuen & Co.

Louis Untermeyer, 1920, Modern British Poetry, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, or Harcourt, Brace & Co.

W. B. Yeats, 1889, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, Kegan Paul & Co.
Contains Down by the Salley Gardens and 16 other poems, including "The Song of the Happy Shepherd," "The Ballad of Moll Magee," "The Indian to His Love," "The Meditation of the Old Fisherman," "The Ballad of the Foxhunter," "The Stolen Child."