在那七片树林里

In the Seven Woods: first published in 1903, including ‘The Old Age of Queen Maeve’ and ‘Baile and Aillinn’. Expanded by three poems in 1906 and two poems in 1908. In the 1903 edition, which included the play On Baile's Strand, Yeats noted that

“I made some of the poems walking among the Seven Woods, before the big wind of nineteen hundred and three blew down so many trees, & troubled the wild creatures, & changed the look of things; and I thought out there a good part of the play which follows. The first shape of it came to me in a dream, but it changed much in the making, foreshadowing, it may be, a change which will bring a less dream-burdened will into my verses. I never re-wrote anything so many times; for at first I could not make these wills that stream into mere life poetical. But now I hope to do easily much more of the kind, and that our new Irish players will find the buskin and the sock.” (VP pp. 8 814-15)