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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

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
Chaos
Falcon
Everywhere
Drowned
Mere
Tide
Blood
Ceremony
Upon
Anarchy
World
Tides
Intensity
Dimmed
Innocence
Loosed

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