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THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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First Line: I WILL ARISE AND GO NOW, AND GO TO INNISFREE
Last Line: I HEAR IT IN THE DEEP HEART'S CORE.
Subject(s): CONTENTMENT; COUNTRY LIFE; IMAGINATION; INLAND WATERS; INNISFREE, IRELAND; ISLANDS; LAKES; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; NATURE; SLIGO, COUNTY (IRELAND); SOLITUDE; VISION; FANCY; POOLS; PONDS; LONELINESS;
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.


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