The Song of the Happy Shepherd
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title:
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
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"The Song of the Happy Shepherd" is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was first published under this title in his first book, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, but in fact the same poem had appeared twice before: as an epilogue to Yeats' poem The Isle of Statues, and again as an epilogue to his verse play Mosada. On the first of these occasions, the poem was said to be spoken by a satyr carrying a conch shell. In the poem, the shepherd mourns the death of the old pastoral world and rejec
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1889 poem by William Butler Yeats
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date created:
2004-12-04T05:57:03Z
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2024-08-30T15:49:56Z
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