W.H. Auden

IN MEMORY OF W.B. YEATS

In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.

W.H. Auden

In Memory of W. B. Yeats (l. 62-65)… Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden] Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press