The Green Helmet and Other Poems/On Hearing that the Students

The Green Helmet and Other Poems
by William Butler Yeats
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians against Immoral Literature
3327175The Green Helmet and Other Poems — On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians against Immoral LiteratureWilliam Butler Yeats

ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS
OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY
HAVE JOINED THE ANCIENT
ORDER OF HIBERNIANS
AND THE AGITATION AGAINST
IMMORAL LITERATURE

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle-age.