Robert Bly Reads "Vacillation" by Wm. Butler Yeats (2001)

An excerpt from Mike Hazard's 2001 film "Eugene McCarthy: I'm Sorry I Was Right."
"My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blesséd and could bless."

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Nice little find. It should read 'recites'.