The Song of the Happy Shepherd
- The Song of the Happy Shepherd
"The Song of the Happy Shepherd" is a poem by William Butler Yeats.
It was first published under this title in his first book, "The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems", but in fact the same poem had appeared twice before: as an epilogue to Yeats' poem "The Isle of Statues", and again as an epilogue to his verse play "Mosada". On the first of these occasions, the poem was said to be spoken by a satyr carrying a conch shell.
References
* Mosada (William Butler Yeats, 1886) — in its original publication, the play was followed by this lyric.
External links
* [http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/791/ The Song of the Happy Shepherd]
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