“Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”

— W.B. Yeats, book Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 4. <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/ <br class="br">Context: I write it out in a verse—<br>MacDonagh and MacBride<br>And Connolly and Pearse<br>Now and in time to be,<br>Wherever green is worn,<br>Are changed, changed utterly:<br>A terrible beauty is born.

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