The Three Monuments
William Butler Yeats * Track #19 On The Tower
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Album The Tower
- #1Sailing to Byzantium
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- #2The Tower
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- #3Meditations in Time of Civil War
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- #4Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
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- #5The Wheel
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- #6Youth And Age
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- #7The New Faces
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- #8A Prayer For My Son
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- #9Two Songs From A Play
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- #10Fragments
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- #11Leda and the Swan
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- #12On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac
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- #13Among School Children
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- #14Colonus’ Praise
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- #15Wisdom
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- #16The Fool by The Roadside
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- #17Owen Aherne and his Dancers
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- #18A Man Young and Old
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- #19The Three Monuments
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- #20All Souls’ Night (Epilogue to ’A Vision’)
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The Three Monuments by William Butler Yeats
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William Butler YeatsThe Three Monuments Annotated
They hold their public meetings where
Our most renowned patriots stand,
One among the birds of the air,
A stumpier on either hand;
And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud
And pride bring in impurity:
The three old rascals laugh aloud.