William Butler Yeats. <br /> <br />Man of duty, for we to our country duty have <br />to render it brave and grave <br />and great. <br /> <br />You did your duty, you knew your duty, and you <br />did duty well. <br /> <br />Now the verse remains, open the book, read and <br />feel. <br /> <br />And that be you; to feel, to be, to be, to feel. <br /> <br />And in that phenomenon to all of us common, <br />there issue the wonders from your homely <br />verse, and great lines. <br /> <br />Your heart looks greater, your brain no less, <br />but more than these the throbbing of the pulse <br />Brave Ireland-Eire, brave Yeats, green land of <br />beauty in the small, <br />amidst the vast and greater in this Earth<br /><br />Emmanuel George Cefai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/william-butler-yeats-2/
