This absurdity - O heart

What shall I do with this absurdity—
O heart, O troubled heart—this caricature,
Decrepit age that has been tied to me
As to a dog's tail?

                      Never had I more
Excited, passionate, fanatical
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That more expected the impossible—


[from W. B. Yeats, The Tower]

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posted from Basel, with an ear and an eye...