"You ask what I have found and..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
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“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
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“I feel it gone, yet know not when it left.”
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