A chara, – Joe Biden cheapened Yeats when quoting from his poem The Second Coming in his valedictory speech at the United Nations General Assembly, claiming – against mounting evidence to the contrary – that “the centre has held” (World , September 24th).
In the same poem, Yeats describes those like Mr Biden to a tee: “A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun”. – Is mise,
DOMINIC CARROLL,
Ardfield,
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