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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.
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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves that lamp is from the tomb.
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All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.
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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
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