The House That Is Built
A house that is built
is a lonely place
Four walls and a roof
and you alone in it
Circling the eye takes in the rooms
Each room has four corners in it
Yeats went up a tower mumbling
his rhymes about the turning gyres
Wind sweeps here too
But the air is must with seven centuries
The windows don't shut
And let in the rain.
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