Irish Representative Peer

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    Earth, receive an honoured guest:
    William Yeats is laid to rest.
    Let the Irish vessel lie
    Emptied of its poetry.
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    Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
    Till ‘Cherry-ripe’ themselves do cry.
    Thomas Campion (1567–1620)