Sailing to Byzantium

Author: Yeats, W B
ISBN: 9780241746981
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 15 Jul 2025
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback / softback

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'Under bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stands near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:

Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!'