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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

The Peacock

William Butler Yeats

WHAT’S riches to him

That has made a great peacock

With the pride of his eye?

The wind-beaten, stone-grey,

And desolate Three-rock

Would nourish his whim;

Live he or die

Between rock and wet heather,

His ghost will be gay

Adding feather to feather

For the pride of his eye.