A Poem by William Butler Yeats
(FYI: a “stare” is the west-of-Ireland name for a starling.) And now the poem: The Stare’s Nest by My Window The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies. My wall is loosening; honey-bees, Come build in the empty house of the stare. We are …