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  • For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies

    Late day beachscape. Ann Althouse 2008

  • For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,

    A Cradle Song William Butler 1899

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  • The Dannan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,

    And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,

    For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,

    With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold:

    I kiss my wailing child and press it to my breast,

    And hear the narrow graves calling my child and me.

    - W.B. Yeats, 'A Cradle Song'.

    September 18, 2009