“I pray — for word is out
And prayer comes round again —
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.”

— W.B. Yeats

A Prayer For Old Age, st. 3.
A Full Moon in March (1935)

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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