I [care not]1 what the sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
All that storm that blots the day
Can but show that Heaven yawns;
Great Europa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.

To round that shell's elaborate whorl,
Adorning every secret track
With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
Made the joints of Heaven crack:
So never hang your heart upon
A roaring, ranting journeyman.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.

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First published in London Mercury, November 1930
¹ Grill: "don't care"

Text Authorship:

• by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Crazy Jane reproved" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921), "Crazy Jane reproved" [ low female voice and piano ], from Three love songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "Crazy Jane Reproved", 1999, copyright © 2000 [ soprano, flute, violin, viola, cello and piano ], from Crazy Jane Sings, no. 2, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (1899 - 1973), "Crazy Jane reproved", 1958 [ soprano and harp ], from Crazy Jane, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by David Lidov (b. 1941), "Crazy Jane reproved", 1967, rev. 1970 [ voice and piano ], from Crazy Jane's songs [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Paviour (b. 1931), "Crazy Jane reproved", copyright © 1969 [ soprano and piano ], from Crazy Jane, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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