You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?

Readings

W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Patrick Kennedy
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W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Edna O'Brien
W.B. Yeats: 'The Spur' read by Patrick Kennedy
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