“Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old.”

— W.B. Yeats

The Wild Swans At Coole, st. 4
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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