Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

William Butler Yeats

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Jul 12, 2023
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Have you ever been in a place where you’ve lived for some time, and still felt that you were not really home there, and could never be home? That was how Debra and I felt when I’d taken my first job as a professor in — well, I won’t say exactly where it was. Sometimes it isn’t on account of the place itself, which many people might find sweet and love…

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