In Reply to: The Verve Yeats? Was that "Jammin' Among School Children"? (nt) posted by Jonathan Kranz on March 27, 2000 at 06:12:57:
Yeats: The Verve Years 1920-1922W.B. could blow a mean Sax, but didn't think much of his own abilities as is evidenced by the following poem:
All Things can tempt me
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a Saxaphone, or worse—
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed Sax. When I was young,
I had not given a penny for a song
Did not the poet sing it with such airs
That one believed he had a Sax upstairs;
Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.-Joe.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Sorry it should have been.... - JoeII-K 11:29:21 03/27/00 (1)
- Excellent rejoinder! (nt) - Jonathan Kranz 13:41:08 03/27/00 (0)