10. Attack on ‘The Playboy of the Western World,’ 1907, The. Yeats, W. B. 1916. Responsibilities and Other Poems

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). Responsibilities and Other Poems. 1916.

10. The Attack on ‘The Playboy of the Western World,’ 1907

ONCE, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
From thoroughfare to thoroughfare,
While that great Juan galloped by;
And like these to rail and sweat	5
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.