William Butler Yeats



                   Solomon To Sheba


                   Sang Solomon to Sheba,
                   And kissed her dusky face,
                   "All day long from mid-day
                   We have talked in the one place,
                   All day long from shadowless noon
                   We have gone round and round
                   In the narrow theme of love
                   Like a old horse in a pound."

                   To Solomon sang Sheba,
                   Plated on his knees,
                   "If you had broached a matter
                   That might the learned please,
                   You had before the sun had thrown
                   Our shadows on the ground
                   Discovered that my thoughts, not it,
                   Are but a narrow pound."

                   Said Solomon to Sheba,
                   And kissed her Arab eyes,
                   "There’s not a man or woman
                   Born under the skies
                   Dare match in learning with us two,
                   And all day long we have found
                   There’s not a thing but love can make
                   The world a narrow pound."


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