I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost; For all eyes but these eyes.William Butler Yeats
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave of the sea.
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The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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