Words Upon His Stone: Hoofbeats at Drumcliff Churchyard

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Cast a cold eye
On life, on death,
Horseman, pass by!

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 Irish poet William Butler Yeats

June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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Horseman, pass by!

this ground

Horseman, pass by!

pale umbrella

abstracted painting blended

with arcane images

of ancient Egypt

suggesting influences

of the esoteric

and modernism

upon

Yeats

paler shade of

public domain Egyptology image: Internet Archive

painting  2003  S. McCabe

my painting