• I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

    William Butler Yeats: I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by.
    William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions