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Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Down by the Salley Gardens

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;

She pass’d the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;

But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.