Responsibilities/The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907

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580261Responsibilities — The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907William Butler Yeats
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THE ATTACK ON 'THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD,' 1907

Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
From thoroughfare to thoroughfare,
While that great Juan galloped by;
And like these to rail and sweat
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.

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