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Yeats, W B - Selected poems - Nineteen hundred and nineteen
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W B Yeats – from Selected Poetry
from Nineteen hundred and nineteen
A man in his own secret meditation
Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made
In art or politics;
Some Platonist affirms that in the station
Where we should cast off body and trade
The ancient habit sticks,
And that if our works could
But vanish with our breath
That were a lucky death,
For triumph can but mar our solitude