Rethink.

For my students. In my arrogance, I will assert them to be the makers of the coming peace: nothing more, and certainly nothing less. Easter, 1916 William Butler Yeats I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod …

for Rachael, with thanks. Too long a sacrificeCan make a stone of the heart.O when may it suffice?That is Heaven’s part, our partTo murmur name upon name,As a mother names her childWhen sleep at last has comeOn limbs that had run wild.What is it but nightfall?No, no, not night but death;Was it needless death after …