WB Yeats's elegiac love poem has been set beautifully to music by composers including Benjamin Britten and the First World War poet-composer Ivor Gurney, who tragically ended his days in an asylum.

DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;

She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.

She bid me take life easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;

But I being young and foolish with her did not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.