{"id":355,"date":"2014-06-19T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/?post_type=chapter&p=355"},"modified":"2014-09-27T05:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T05:48:40","slug":"crazy-jane-talks-with-the-bishop","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/englishliterature\/chapter\/crazy-jane-talks-with-the-bishop\/","title":{"raw":"Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop","rendered":"Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop"},"content":{"raw":"[footnote]Between 1929 and 1932, Yeats wrote seven poems featuring the wisdom of an old peasant woman who lived in Galway.[\/footnote]\r\n\r\nI met the Bishop on the road\r\nAnd much said he and I.\r\n'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,\r\nThose veins must soon be dry;\r\nLive in a heavenly mansion,\r\nNot in some foul sty.'\r\n\r\n'Fair and foul are near of kin,\r\nAnd fair needs foul,' I cried.\r\n'My friends are gone, but that's a truth\r\nNor grave nor bed denied,\r\nLearned in bodily lowliness\r\nAnd in the heart's pride.\r\n\r\n'A woman can be proud and stiff\r\nWhen on love intent;\r\nBut Love has pitched his mansion in\r\nThe place of excrement;\r\nFor nothing can be sole or whole\r\nThat has not been rent.'\r\n\r\n\u2014<\/b>\u00a01932","rendered":"