Quotation by William Butler Yeats

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When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream....

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Travail of Passion."

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