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The Balloon of the Mind
by W. B. Yeats
 

Hands, do what you're bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.


Today's poem is in the public domain.

Poetry by Yeats 

The Collected Poems
January 5, 2013
Appointed a senator of the Irish Free State in 1922, William Butler Yeats is remembered as an important cultural leader and one of the great poets of the early 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923.
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