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Original Language
English

The Dawn

Themes

Dawn

Moon

Recommended Books

	Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: Th Cuchulain Cycle of W. B. Yeats, by Barton R. Friedman
	Autobiography of W. B. Yeats, by W. B. Yeats
	Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult, by Leon Surette
	Blackwell Critical Biographies #12: The Life of W. B. Yeats, by Terence Brown
	A Book of Irish Verse, by William Butler Yeats

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I would be ignorant as the dawn
That has looked down
On that old queen measuring a town
With the pin of a brooch,
Or on the withered men that saw
From their pedantic Babylon
The careless planets in their courses,
The stars fade out where the moon comes.
And took their tablets and did sums;
I would be ignorant as the dawn
That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach
Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

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