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1865–1939

II

William Butler Yeats

When Loie Fuller's Chinese dancers enwound A shining web, a floating ribbon of cloth, It seemed that a dragon of air Had fallen among dancers, had whirled them round

Or hurried them off on its own furious path; So the platonic year Whirls out new right and wrong Whirls in the old instead;

All men are dancers and their tread Goes to the barbarous clangour of gong.

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