The Fascination of What's Difficult by W.B. Yeats

<p>Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman</p><p> </p><p>The Fascination of What’s Difficult</p><p>BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS</p><p>The fascination of what's difficult</p><p>Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent</p><p>Spontaneous joy and natural content</p><p>Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt</p><p>That must, as if it had not holy blood</p><p>Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,</p><p>Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt</p><p>As though it dragged road metal. My curse on plays</p><p>That have to be set up in fifty ways,</p><p>On the day's war with every knave and dolt,</p><p>Theatre business, management of men.</p><p>I swear before the dawn comes round again</p><p>I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.</p>