“Land of Heart's Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”

—  W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire

Source: The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Lines 373–375

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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