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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

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
Anxiety
Dreams
Dream
Tread
Softly

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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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