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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
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Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.
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