I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan's poor.
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I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.William Butler Yeats
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering
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I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead.
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