“All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?”

—  W.B. Yeats

The Scholars http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1682/, st. 2 <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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