The Countess Cathleen Quotes

“A learned theologian has laid down That starving men may take what's necessary, And yet be sinless.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Countess Cathleen

“The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Countess Cathleen