'TIME to put off the world and go somewhere <br />And find my health again in the sea air,' <br />Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, <br />'And make my soul before my pate is bare.- <br />'And get a comfortable wife and house <br />To rid me of the devil in my shoes,' <br />Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, <br />'And the worse devil that is between my thighs.' <br />And though I'd marry with a comely lass, <br />She need not be too comely -- let it pass,' <br />Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, <br />'But there's a devil in a looking-glass.' <br />'Nor should she be too rich, because the rich <br />Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,' <br />Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, <br />'And cannot have a humorous happy speech.' <br />'And there I'll grow respected at my ease, <br />And hear amid the garden's nightly peace.' <br />Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, <br />'The wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese.'<br /><br />William Butler Yeats<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/beggar-to-beggar-cried/
