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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
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Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
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Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.
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I bring you with reverent handsThe books of my numberless dreams.
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How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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