Once in Rapallo at dinner with Ezra Pound and Pound's informal student Basil Bunting Yeats recited Bunting's "I am agog for foam" to the company. Bunting was less than half his age and would remain almost completely unknown for another 35 years. Is this "humility"? There's a different Yeats showing here than the druidical bard on the BBC tapes. Or is there? Somebody who knows Yeats’ biography can maybe correct or modify it, but I have the impression that although by the time he wrote Adam’s Curse he had known MG for almost 20 years, he didn’t see her at all regularly over the entire period. There were long stretches when he didn’t see her at all and then would encounter her again to discover again how completely she knocked him over. And again be rejected. I imagine this sense of time passing, and passing in repeated futililties, shows in her comment about the need it creates to “labor to be beautiful,” in their common weariness, and in A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke iin days and years. * Falcon, was MG an Anima Girl?