“Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,”

—  W.B. Yeats , book The Tower

I, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
Context: Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,
protected from the circle of the moon
That pitches common things about.

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