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Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Though logic choppers rule the town
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W B Yeats – Collected Poems
‘Though logic choppers rule the town
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy’
Or so did all the sages say
That saw the surges running by
‘And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey’