[footnote]Between 1929 and 1932, Yeats wrote seven poems featuring the wisdom of an old peasant woman who lived in Galway.[\/footnote]\n\nI met the Bishop on the road\nAnd much said he and I.\n'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,\nThose veins must soon be dry;\nLive in a heavenly mansion,\nNot in some foul sty.'\n\n'Fair and foul are near of kin,\nAnd fair needs foul,' I cried.\n'My friends are gone, but that's a truth\nNor grave nor bed denied,\nLearned in bodily lowliness\nAnd in the heart's pride.\n\n'A woman can be proud and stiff\nWhen on love intent;\nBut Love has pitched his mansion in\nThe place of excrement;\nFor nothing can be sole or whole\nThat has not been rent.'\n\n\u2014<\/b>\u00a01932<\/p>","rendered":"
[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n I met the Bishop on the road ‘Fair and foul are near of kin, ‘A woman can be proud and stiff \u2014<\/b>\u00a01932<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t
\nAnd much said he and I.
\n‘Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
\nThose veins must soon be dry;
\nLive in a heavenly mansion,
\nNot in some foul sty.’<\/p>\n
\nAnd fair needs foul,’ I cried.
\n‘My friends are gone, but that’s a truth
\nNor grave nor bed denied,
\nLearned in bodily lowliness
\nAnd in the heart’s pride.<\/p>\n
\nWhen on love intent;
\nBut Love has pitched his mansion in
\nThe place of excrement;
\nFor nothing can be sole or whole
\nThat has not been rent.’<\/p>\nCandela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t