Do You Send Invitations To A Wedding On An Island

bees nest in the cracks
construction destruction, and there
mothers birds bring grubs and flies
my wall is in ruins: bees
Come build in the house Empty the stare.

We are closed in and the key is turned
our insecurity somewhere
a man is killed or a house burned, but no
made clear to understand:
come build in the empty house of the stare.

A barricade of stone or wood
fourteen days of civil war and more;
last night brought down the road
the bloodied body of a young soldier dead
Come build in the empty house of the stare.

Avevamo nutrito il cuore di fantasie
e per ciò il cuore si è indurito:
più sostanza nei nostri rancori
che nel nostro amore; o api operaie
venite a costruire nella dimora vuota dello storno.

Yeats, da Meditations in time of civil war