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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
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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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
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