“He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.”

—  W.B. Yeats

St. 3
The Rose (1893), The Rose of the World
Context: Bow down, archangels, in your dim abode:
Before you were, or any hearts to beat,
Weary and kind one lingered by His seat;
He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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