<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537097" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>High Talk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PROCESSIONS that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.<br>What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,<br>And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern Stalks upon higher,<br>Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.<br>Because piebald ponies, led bears, caged lions, ake but poor shows,<br>Because children demand Daddy-long-legs upon This timber toes,<br>Because women in the upper storeys demand a face at the pane,<br>That patching old heels they may shriek, I take to chisel and plane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Malachi Stilt-Jack am I, whatever I learned has run wild, From collar to collar, from stilt to stilt, from father to child.<br>All metaphor, Malachi, stilts and all. A barnacle goose<br>Far up in the stretches of night; night splits and the dawn breaks loose;<br>I, through the terrible novelty of light, stalk on, stalk on;<br>Those great sea-horses bare their teeth and laugh at the dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Butler+Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537097" data-title="High Talk de William Butler Yeats" data-description="PROCESSIONS that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern Stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fe..."></div> </div> </div>

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