Sailing to Byzantium

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

'Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church stands near, By the road an ancient cross. No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut-

Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!'