Published June 09. 2021 5:00PM
By Belinda deKay, Special to the Times
June 13 is the birthday of William Butler Yeats, the great Irish poet and one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. This is what he heard ‘in the deep heart’s core’ while standing on London’s ‘pavements grey’
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine-bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,