Butler
A butler is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some also have charge of the entire parlour floor, and housekeepers caring for the entire house and its appearance. A butler is usually male, and in charge of male servants, while a housekeeper is usually a woman, and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants (such as footmen) were rarer and therefore better paid and of higher status than female servants. The butler, as the senior male servant, has the highest servant status.
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“MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord,
Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred,
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Great nations blossom above,
A slave bows down to a slave.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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On breast of Mars the goddess sighed.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)