flow else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in? And he of the swollen purple throat, And a broken and a contrite heart The Lord will not despise. The man in red who reads the Law And cleanse from every blot of blood 620 630 WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865- ) THE BALLAD OF THE FOX- "Now lay me in a cushioned chair With cushions here and cushions there, And some one from the stables bring "Now leave the chair upon the grass: And with tears of blood he cleansed the Bring hound and huntsman here, hand, And I on this strange road will pass, His eyelids droop, his head falls low, Brown Dermot treads upon the lawn, 10 And there, till Christ call forth the dead, The huntsman near him stands. |