“O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”

— W.B. Yeats

Brown Penny http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1454/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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