Tuesday, March 24, 2015



     Thinking about the need for an Innisfree right about now, so why not go to the source? It's a week past St. Patrick's Day, but William Butler Yeats is always in season! His voice reminds me of John J. McGuire, my ninth-grade English teacher, who did not have a musical lilt as far as I remember. Perhaps my class did not bring it out of him!

    Someone finally posted Judy Collins' lovely sung version of this poem. We saw Judy years ago in a Christmas concert in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Enjoy this song
in your deep heart's core!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlcvQg9i6c                


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QahVf0wL9IU


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