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Hanrahan reproves the Curlew

by W. B. Yeats, 1899

O, curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind.

Published in The Wind Among the Reeds
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