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The Collar-bone of a Hare

Music © 2008 Stephen Savitzky. Some Rights Reserved.
Words: William Butler Yeats, from The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919

Would I could cast a sail on the water   
Where many a king has gone       
And many a king's daughter,      
And alight at the comely trees and the lawn,     
The playing upon pipes and the dancing,
And learn that the best thing is         
To change my loves while dancing         
And pay but a kiss for a kiss.   

I would find by the edge of that water   
The collar-bone of a hare
Worn thin by the lapping of water,       
And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare    
At the old bitter world where they marry in churches,
And laugh over the untroubled water      
At all who marry in churches,
Through the white thin bone of a hare.   

This used to be one of my favorites back when I was young, lonely, and depressed. I found it tickling the back of my mind as I was working on something else in waltz time with dancing in it. Not sure I really like the setting yet.

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