| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | To a Child Dancing in the Wind | | By William Butler Yeats |
| | | HAS no one said those daring | |
| Kind eyes should be more learned? | |
| I have found out how despairing | |
| The moths are when they are burned. | |
| But I am old and you are young, | 5 |
| So we speak a different tongue. | |
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| Oh you will take whatever’s offered | |
| And dream that all the world’s a friend, | |
| Suffer as your mother suffered, | |
| Be as broken in the end. | 10 |
| I could have warned you—but you are young, | |
| And I speak a barbarous tongue. | | | | |
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