“It’s certain there is no fine thing
Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring.”

— W.B. Yeats

St. 3 In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/ Context: It’s certain there is no fine thing Since Adam’s fall but needs much labouring. There have been lovers who thought love should be So much compounded of high courtesy That they would sigh and quote with learned looks Precedents out of beautiful old books; Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.

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