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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Peace
Comes
Find
Sings
Veils
Dropping
Cricket
Slow
Morning

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