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There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
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I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
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