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.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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GLOSSARY
GLOSSARY [Title] Lake Isle: small island on a lake
[Title] Innisfree: a tiny, uninhabited island on Lough Gill, Sligo
[1] I will arise and go now: biblical allusion (the prodigal son says this when he decides to return home)
[2] wattles: sticks for making fences [8] linnet: a brown-grey bird with a red breast
