“The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.”

— W.B. Yeats

The Countess Cathleen http://www.letras.ufrj.br/veralima/6_referencias/63_e_texts_2005/yeats/countess_cathleen/yeats_countess_cathleen_2005.htm, last lines (1892)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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