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1865–1939

A DEEP-SWORN VOW

William Butler Yeats

Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep,

Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.

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