• Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

    William Butler Yeats: Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.23, Wordsworth Editions