Sligo, WB Yeats and Pink Clover

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‘Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman pass by.’  W.B. YEATS June 13th 1865 January 28th 1939.

This is the famous inscription, taken from the poem Under Ben Bulben, which decorates the grave of W.B. Yeats, in Drumcliffe churchyard, north of Sligo town. The words were Yeats’ own epitaph, and he also gave instruction that the grave should display: ‘N…