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How Well Do You Remember The Lines Of WB Yeats' Innisfree?

Leaving Cert memories.
6.12pm, 27 Apr 2017
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Today is Poetry Day Ireland – a celebration of the power of Irish poetry. So, dust off that Leaving Cert poetry book by testing yourself on WB Yeats’ The Lake Isle of Innisfree:

"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a _____ cabin build there, of clay and wattles made"
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log
small

modest
"________ bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee"
Wikipedia
Six
Eight

Nine
"And live alone in the ____-loud glade"
Jay Sturner flickr
bee
peace

calm
"And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes _________ slow"
National Library of Ireland
dropping
falling

gliding
"Dropping from the veils of the ______ to where the cricket sings"
@bourkeac Instragram
mountain
mist

morning
"There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the _______ wings."
Commons
cricket's
linnet's

antlion's
"I will arise and go now, for always ____________"
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night and day
day and night

in the air
"I hear lake water lapping with _______________ by the shore"
wikipedia
tide sounds
wave sounds

low sounds
"While I stand on the ___________, or on the pavements grey,"
@compositions_perspectives Instagram
shore line
roadway

beachside
"I hear it in the deep ________________"
wikimedia
heart’s core
earth core

downpour
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