mgerard. Rachel de Woskin and Mary Ann have posted here already-- no amazement called for!

In relation to the "Victorian" element you and Peter and Mary Ann have observed: as I gradually, without willing it, got this poem by heart, I noticed that the passage with embers of twilight and trembling blue-green and so forth was the last part I could do properly. Maybe that passage represents Yeats including, and using, the more pre-modern, Celtic Twilight part of his own sensibility. The softest, most nostalgic moment triggering the most intimate and direct moment, that follows it?