Quotation by William Butler Yeats

Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
On every crowded street to stare
Upon great Juan riding by:
Even like these to rail and sweat
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. "On Those That Hated 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907."
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