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Sailing to Byzantium

Sailing to Byzantium

Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
In one anothers arms, birds in the trees
Monuments of unageing intellect.
Sailing to Byzantium
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
For evehttps://read.99csw.comry tatter in its mortal dress,
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
O sages standing in Gods holy fire
My bodily form from any natural thing,
Into the artifice of eternity.
Soul clap its hands ahttps://read.99csw.comnd sing, and louder sing
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
Monuments of its own magnificence;
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
To keep a drowsy Emper九_九_藏_書or awake;
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Nor is there singing school but studying
And fastened to a dying animal
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To the holy city of Byzantium.
THAT is no country for old m九-九-藏-書en. The young
Once out of nature I shall never take
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Or set upon a golden九_九_藏_書 bough to sing
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
- Those dying generations - at their song,