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Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Sailing to Byzantium
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011819
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William Butler Yeats – from Sailing to Byzantium
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of Eternity