{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy092.htm","path":"neu/yeats/lpy/lpy092.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy092.htm","text":"\"TIME to put off the world and go somewhere\n And find my health again in the sea air,\"\n Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,\n \"And make my soul before my pate is bare.\"\n\"And get a comfortable wife and house\n To rid me of the devil in my shoes,\"\n Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,\n \"And the worse devil that is between my thighs.\"\n\"And though I'd marry with a comely lass,\n She need not be too comely--let it pass,\"\n Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,\n \"But there's a devil in a looking-glass.\"\n\"Nor should she be too rich, because the rich\n Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,\"\n Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,\n \"And cannot have a humorous happy speech.\" p. 209\n\"And there I'll grow respected at my ease,\n And hear amid the garden's nightly peace,\"\n Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,\n \"The wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese.\"","title":"Later Poems of Yeats: Responsibilities (1914): Beggar to Beggar Cried","type":"page"}