Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled. -William Butler Yeats

 

Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.


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Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?

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And say my glory was I had such friends.

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