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,