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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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Unity
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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.
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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
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A line will take us hours maybe Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
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