“Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.”

— W.B. Yeats , book Michael Robartes and the Dancer

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Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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