It also made "Under Ben Bulben" the final poem, a convention followed until the 1980s when it became clear that the original arrangement better reflected the poet's intentions.

[2] Ben Bulben is a large flat-topped rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland.

Yeats is buried in the churchyard of Drumcliffe Church in Sligo, which stands at the foot of Ben Bulben.

[8] The last three lines of the poem are used as the epitaph on Yeats' gravestone, and they were composed with that intention:[9]Cast a cold eye On life, on death Horseman, pass by!

[11] Now this class of persons may be met with in many places, for it was fitting that both Greece and the country of the barbarians should partake of whatever is perfectly good; and there is the greatest number of such men in Egypt, in every one of the districts, or nomes, as they are called, and especially around Alexandria; and from all quarters those who are the best of these therapeutae proceed on their pilgrimage to some most suitable place as if it were their country, which is beyond the Maereotic lake.