William Butler Yeats (Уильям Батлер Йейтс)

The Dawn

I WOULD be ignorant as the dawn
That has looked down
On that old queen measuring a town
With the pin of a brooch,
Or on the withered men that saw
From their pedantic Babylon
The careless planets in their courses,
The stars fade out where the moon comes.
And took their tablets and did sums;
I would be ignorant as the dawn
That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach
Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn. 

1. The Ballad of Moll Magee
2. Beautiful Lofty Things
3. Dream of a Blessed Spirit
4. The Magi
5. Crazy Jane Reproved

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