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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537206" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I<br>ON the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye<br>Has called up the cold spirits that are born<br>When the old moon is vanished from the sky<br>And the new still hides her horn.<br>Under blank eyes and fingers never still<br>The particular is pounded till it is man.<br>When had I my own will?<br>O not since life began.<br>Constrained, arraigned, baffled, bent and unbent<br>By these wire-jointed jaws and limbs of wood,<br>Themselves obedient,<br>Knowing not evil and good;<br>Obedient to some hidden magical breath.<br>They do not even feel, so abstract are they.<br>So dead beyond our death,<br>Triumph that we obey.<br>On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw<br>A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw.<br>A Buddha, hand at rest,<br>Hand lifted up that blest;<br>And right between these two a girl at play<br>That, it may be, had danced her life away,<br>For now being dead it seemed<br>That she of dancing dreamed.<br>Although I saw it all in the mind's eye<br>There can be nothing solider till I die;<br>I saw by the moon's light<br>Now at its fifteenth night.<br>One lashed her tail; her eyes lit by the moon<br>Gazed upon all things known, all things unknown,<br>In triumph of intellect<br>With motionless head erect.<br>That other's moonlit eyeballs never moved,<br>Being fixed on all things loved, all things unloved.<br>Yet little peace he had,<br>For those that love are sad. <br>Little did they care who danced between,<br>And little she by whom her dance was seen<br>So she had outdanced thought.<br>Body perfection brought,<br>For what but eye and ear silence the mind<br>With the minute particulars of mankind?<br>Mind moved yet seemed to stop<br>As 'twere a spinning-top.<br>In contemplation had those three so wrought<br>Upon a moment, and so stretched it out<br>That they, time overthrown,<br>Were dead yet flesh and bone.<br>I knew that I had seen, had seen at last<br>That girl my unremembering nights hold fast<br>Or else my dreams that fly<br>If I should rub an eye,<br>And yet in flying fling into my meat<br>A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat<br>As though I had been undone<br>By Homer's Paragon<br>Who never gave the burning town a thought;<br>To such a pitch of folly I am brought,<br>Being caught between the pull<br>Of the dark moon and the full,<br>The commonness of thought and images<br>That have the frenzy of our western seas.<br>Thereon I made my moan,<br>And after kissed a stone,<br>And after that arranged it in a song<br>Seeing that I, ignorant for So long,<br>Had been rewarded thus<br>In Cormac's ruined house.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He. Opinion is not worth a rush;<br>In this altar-piece the knight,<br>Who grips his long spear so to push<br>That dragon through the fading light,<br>Loved the lady; and it's plain<br>The half-dead dragon was her thought,<br>That every morning rose again<br>And dug its claws and shrieked and fought.<br>Could the impossible come to pass<br>She would have time to turn her eyes,<br>Her lover thought, upon the glass<br>And on the instant would grow wise.<br>She. You mean they argued.<br>He. Put it so;<br>But bear in mind your lover's wage<br>Is what your looking-glass can show,<br>And that he will turn green with rage<br>At all that is not pictured there.<br>She. May I not put myself to college?<br>He. Go pluck Athene by the hair;<br>For what mere book can grant a knowledge<br>With an impassioned gravity<br>Appropriate to that beating breast,<br>That vigorous thigh, that dreaming eye?<br>And may the Devil take the rest.<br>She. And must no beautiful woman be<br>Learned like a man?<br>He. Paul Veronese<br>And all his sacred company<br>Imagined bodies all their days<br>By the lagoon you love so much,<br>For proud, soft, ceremonious proof<br>That all must come to sight and touch;<br>While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof,<br>His 'Morning' and his 'Night' disclose<br>How sinew that has been pulled tight,<br>Or it may be loosened in repose,<br>Can rule by supernatural right<br>Yet be but sinew.<br>She. I have heard said<br>There is great danger in the body.<br>He. Did God in portioning wine and bread<br>Give man His thought or His mere body?<br>She. My wretched dragon is perplexed.<br>Hec. I have principles to prove me right.<br>It follows from this Latin text<br>That blest souls are not composite,<br>And that all beautiful women may<br>Live in uncomposite blessedness,<br>And lead us to the like -- if they<br>Will banish every thought, unless<br>The lineaments that please their view<br>When the long looking-glass is full,<br>Even from the foot-sole think it too.<br>She. They say such different things at school.</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>
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ON the grey rock of Cashel the mind's eye
Has called up the cold spirits that are born
When the old moon is vanished from the sky
And the new still hides her horn.
Under blank eyes and fingers never still
The particular is pounded till it is man..."></div>
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