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1865–1939

THE ARROW.

William Butler Yeats

I thought of your beauty and this arrow Made out of a wild thought is in my marrow. There's no man may look upon her, no man, As when newly grown to be a woman,

Blossom pale, she pulled down the pale blossom At the moth hour and hid it in her bosom. This beauty's kinder yet for a reason I could weep that the old is out of season.

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