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

20. The Peacock

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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

Amid wet rocks and heather,

His ghost will be gay

Adding feather to feather

For the pride of his eye.