Thursday, June 16, 2022

The Untiring Ones - W B Yeats -159/365 of reading one short story every day.

The Untiring Ones


This story is another part of The Celtic Twilight. It concerns humans who were enchanted by the fairies. He specifically talks about the Donegal farmers and peasants who,

‘ danced on and on, and days and days

went by, and all the country-side came to look at them, but still their

feet never tired.’

Love with them never grows weary, nor can

the circles of the stars tire out their dancing feet. The Donegal

peasants remember this when they bend over the spade, or sit full of

the heaviness of the fields beside the griddle at nightfall, and they

tell stories about it that it may not be forgotten.'



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