I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.William Butler Yeats
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
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Hell is the place of those who have deniedThey find there what they planted and what dug,A Lake of Spaces, and a Wood of Nothing,And wander there and drift, and never ceaseWailing for substance.
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O heart, we are old The living beauty is for younger men We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
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