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Teach by Martina * Down By The Salley Gardens By William Butler Yeats Down By The Salley Gardens My love and I did meet 　　She passed the Salley Gardens 　　With little snow-white feet 　　She bid me take love easy 　　As the leaves grow on the tree 　　But I being young and foolish 　　With her did not agree In a field by the river 　　My love and I did stand 　　And on my leaning shoulder 　　She laid her snow-white hand 　　She bid me take life easy 　　As the grass grows on the weirs 　　But I was young and foolish 　　And now I am full of tears Background William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865 in Dublin. His father was a lawyer turned Pre- Raphaelite painter. As a writer Yeats made his debut in 1885, when he published his first poems in The Dublin University Review. In 1887 the family returned to Bedford Park, and Yeats devoted himself to writing. He visited Mme Blavatsky, the famous occultist, and joined the Esoteric Section of the Theosophical Society, but was later asked to resign. In 1889 Yeats met his great love, Maud Gonne (1866-1953), an actress and Irish revolutionary who became a major landmark in his life and imagination Yeats was interested in folktales as a part of an exploration of national heritage and for the revival of Celtic identity. His study with George Russell and Douglas Hyde of Irish legends and tales was published in 1888 under the title Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Yeats assembled for children a less detailed version, Irish Fairy Tales, which appeared in 1892. The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) took its subject from Irish mythology. His most famous dramas were Cathleen Ni Houlihan (1902) and The Land of Hearts Desire (1894). In 1932 Yeats founded the Irish Academy of Letters and in 1933 he was briefly involved with the fascist Blueshirts in Dublin. In his final years Yeats worked on the last version of A Vision, which attempted to present a theory of the variation