Sailing to Byzantium

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‘Penguin Archive’ features 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. This is one title in the collection celebrating one of the greatest and most innovative poets of the 20th century.

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

‘Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stands near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:

Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!