Quotation by William Butler Yeats

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I know of the sleepy country, where swans fly round
Coupled with golden chains, and sing as they fly.
A king and a queen are wandering there, and the sound
Has made them so happy and hopeless, so deaf and so blind
With wisdom, they wander till all the years have gone by....

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Withering of the Boughs."

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