The Poetry Corner

Paudeen

By William Butler Yeats

Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite Of our old Paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind Among the stones and thorn trees, under morning light; Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought That on the lonely height where all are in Gods eye, There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot, A single soul that lacks a sweet crystaline cry.