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I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.
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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Playwright
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
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