School Poems: Among School Children by William Butler Yeats

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 5:03 pm on Jul 24, 1979

I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and histories, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way – the children’s eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling [...]


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