You're very welcome, Martin and Mark. With me, it was love at first sight. Zoom, voici! The different years given for it are from different Internet sources (shows what they know), and I left them to give a counterpoint to the poem's theme. I saw it live and in ink as described.
W. B. Yeats - one of the greats - shared stegosaurine traits.
He corrected a lot as he grew wiser: the variorum shows a terrific reviser.
His globe-trotting* words, though, came not from his midsection,
But rather inspection, practice, and stupendous reflection.
*"Michael Angelo left a proof
On the Sistine Chapel roof,
Where but half-awakened Adam
Can disturb *globe-trotting Madam
Till her bowels are in heat,
Proof that there's a purpose set
Before the secret working mind:
Profane perfection of mankind."
- Under Ben Bulben
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