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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

To a Child Dancing upon the Shore

William Butler Yeats

DANCE there upon the shore;

What need have you to care

For wind or water’s roar?

And tumble out your hair

That the salt drops have wet;

Being young you have not known

The fool’s triumph, nor yet

Love lost as soon as won.

And he, the best warrior, dead

And all the sheaves to bind!

What need that you should dread

The monstrous crying of wind?