But what is Whiggery A leveling, rancorous, rational sort of mind That never looked out of the eye of a saint Or out of a drunkard's eye.
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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.William Butler Yeats
Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age
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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
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All the wild witches, those most noble ladies, For all their broomsticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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