Quotation by William Butler Yeats

They sang, but had not human tunes nor words,
Though all was done in common as before;

They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds.
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet. Cuchulain Comforted (l. 23–25). . .

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.
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