PAINTINGS BY URSULA BOYLAN O'GARA

 

Ben Bulben

Sligo

Ireland

Oil on canvas  

12ins x 16ins  

 

 

Under bare Ben Bulben's head

In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.

An ancestor was rector there

Long years ago, a church stands near,

By the road an ancient cross.

No marble, no conventional phrase;

On limestone quarried near the spot

By his command these words are cut:

Cast a cold eye

On life, on death.

Horseman, pass by!

 

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS 

Taken from his poem "Under Ben Bulben"

 

To see the whole poem by Yeats click here

 

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