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The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World

by W. B. Yeats, 1916

Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
From thoroughfare to thoroughfare,
While that great Juan galloped by;
And like these to rail and sweat
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.

Published in Responsibilities, and other poems
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