The Lake Isle of Innisfree

by W. B. Yeats (1890) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A daydream of a small cabin and nine bean-rows, carried in the deep heart's core through every grey city street.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
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Themes: reflection · recovery · new-chapter