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“My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
“This Land of Saints,” and then as the applause died out,
“Of plaster Saints;” his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Toil and grow rich,
What’s that but to lie
With a foul witch...?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“White woman with numberless dreams,
I bring you my passionate rhyme.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Every man that sings a song
Keeps Parnell in his mind
For Parnell was a proud man,
No prouder trod the ground,
And a proud man’s a lovely man
So pass the bottle round.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)