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L. E. Sissman

Poetry

Summer 1965

Elegy and Reflection

By L. E. Sissman

On the return of Yeats’s body to Ireland Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by.   I By Ireland’s rubbly palace that strait sea Often instructed […]