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O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
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
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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
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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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