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1865–1939

HER COURAGE

William Butler Yeats

When her soul flies to the predestined dancing-place ( I have no speech but symbol, the pagan speech I made Amid the dreams of youth ) let her come face to face, While wondering still to be a shade, with Grania's shade

All but the perils of the woodland flight forgot That made her Dermuid dear, and some old cardinal Pacing with half-closed eyelids in a sunny spot Who had murmured of Giorgione at his latest breath —

Aye and Achilles, Timor, Babar, Barhaim, all Who have lived in joy and laughed into the face of Death.

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