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THE FISH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: ALTHOUGH YOU HIDE IN THE EBB AND FLOW
Last Line: AND BLAME YOU WITH MANY BITTER WORDS.
Subject(s): FISH & FISHING;
Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.


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