Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind?
In
1918 Yeats bought Ballylee Castle, near Coole Park, County Galway,
and renamed it Thoor Ballylee. 'Thoor' is Irish for 'tower'. He and
his wife lived there for some of the summer months each year until
1929. The walls are about six feet thick. It has a stone spiral
staircase connecting its four floors and a flat roof.
