Social Commentaries
On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912)
Social Commentaries
Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle-age.
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/92/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/92/.
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