"Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.
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“When I play on my fiddle in DooneyFolk dance like a wave on the sea.”
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